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To 
MRS.  BERTHA  HONORE  PALMER, 

President 

of  the 

Board  of  Lady  Managers 

of  the 

World's  Columbian  Exposition,  Chicago, 

and 

Representative  of  Woman's  Work   before  the  World, 

This  Memorial  Volume  of  the  Life  and 
Public  Services  of 

MRS.  HARRIET  ANNE  LUCAS, 

is  by  permission 
respectfully  dedicated. 


Memorial. 


HARRIET  ANNE  LUCAS, 

wife  of  John  Eucas, 

died  at  her  Philadelphia  residence, 

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May  8th,  1893. 


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Harriet  Anne  Lucas 


Her   singularly   noble    and    useful   life, 

lier  wide  range  of   practical  effort  for  the 

best    interests    of  the   whole    people,    her 

C     vigor   and  success   in    elevating  Woman's 

Work,   and   her   unequaled   sweetness  and 

simplicity   of  personal    character,    created 

a    wide    circle    of  personal    and    devoted 
In     friends.     Much  as  she  had   suffered   from 

i  overwork  at  intervals  for  two  or  three 
years,  all  were  shocked  at   the  announce- 

P     ment  of  her  death.     All  felt  it  as  a  great 

5     public  loss,  and  all  felt  it  keenly  as  a  per- 

'i     sonal  ^rief. 

<  The  tributes  of  respect  and  affection 
sent  to  her  husband  on  this    occasion  are 


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very  striking  in  their  earnestness  and  sin- 
cerity. They  do  honor  to  their  writers, 
not  less  than  to  the  object  of  their  sorrow. 
They  have  been  placed  in  my  hands  to 
properly  arrange  them  in  a  memorial 
volume  which  will  express,  in  addition 
to  these  personal  tributes,  a  further  and 
more  general  history  of  the  noble  work 
of  Mrs.  Lucas.  In  arranging  them,  it 
appears  to  me  proper  to  give  them  the 
direct  order  of  date  as  received,  and  to 
give  in  most  cases  the  entire  matter  of 
the    notes    as  received. 

This  body  of  testimony  to  Mrs.  Lucas' 
worth  will,  therefore,  have  the  first  place, 
and  following  it  will  be  given  the  best 
statement  of  my  own  knowledge  of  her 
singularly  great  public  services  first,  and 
of  her  wonderful  power  to  influence  even 
the  Senate  of  the  United  States  to  do  acts 


of  public    service   which  her  own    genius 
proposed. 

For  a  period  of  nearly  twenty  years  I 
have  been  honored  by  her  confidence,  and 
permitted  to  aid  her  to  the  best  of  my 
ability  in  these  public  services,  and  if  no 
other  person  had  given  expression  to  the 
honor  she  had  earned  before  the  whole 
people,  I  would  myself  have  done  so,  in 
order  to  teach  the  lesson  of  high  duty  as 
well  as  of  high  power  on  the  part  of  those 
who  have  her  ability  in  any  degree,  or  who 
can,  as  she  did,  create  the  largest  oppor- 
tunities, instead  of  waiting  for  them  to 
fall  to  their  hands.  And  I  hope  this 
Memorial  will  be  most  widely  distributed, 
and  will  be  taken  by  the  women  of  this 
country  in  the  highest  sense  as  a  public 
service,  and  as  a  memorial  of  her  personal 
right  to  public   honor.      It   would   not   be 


right  or  just  to  lier  memory  to  limit  this 
testimonial  to  the  single  point  of  her  per- 
sonal worth  or  the  devotion  of  her  personal 
friends ;  yet  there  was  not  a  shadow  of 
formalism  or  a  suggestion  of  officiousness 
in  all  her  efforts.  She  did  not  seek  com- 
binations or  committees,  or  have  occasion 
for  the  use  of  many  of  the  usual  agencies 
to  influence  public  bodies.  Her  own 
words,  direct  and  unaffected,  were  more 
eloquent  and  more  powerful,  as  I  can  per- 
sonally testify,  than  all  the  machinery  of 
committees  or  conventions. 

And  again  it  must  be  said  that  no  hour 
of  public  service,  nor  any  one  among 
the  hundreds  of  efforts  made  by  her  to 
do  this  superior  work,  ever  separated  her 
for  a  single  moment  from  such  devotion 
to  her  home,  her  husband  and  her  family, 
as  gave  her  equal  honor  as  a  leader  and 


guide  in  purely  personal  and  social  duty. 
But  on  this  point  these  earnest  and 
respectful  tributes  from  her  immediate 
personal  friends  are,  perhaps,  the  best 
expression. 

It  is  a  first  duty  of  those  who  would 
do  justice  to  Mrs.  Lucas'  memory  to  see 
that  her  acts  and  works  in  the  public 
service  are  not  forgotten  nor  neglected. 
The  latest  of  these,  representing  her 
designs  and  plans  for  the  World's  Fair 
at  Chicago,  is  still  a  vigorous  and  living 
issue.  If  that  Fair  is  to  exercise  the 
wide  influence  intended  by  her,  the  women 
of  Pennsylvania  should  maintain  their 
active  interest  in  every  phase  of  it.  It 
would  be  possible  to  use  the  County 
Associations,  and  their  personal  agencies, 
in  distributing  the  practical  conclusions 
reached  at  the  Fair. 


Perhaps  the  most  important  of  these 
is  the  proved  capacity  of  woman's  direc- 
tion in  these  great  social  advances.  It 
was  not  a  mistake  to  recognize  and  estab- 
lish a  Woman's  Department,  and  especially 
it  was  not  a  mistake  or  an  ineffective 
branch  to  establish  the  Pennsylvania 
Committee  of  Woman's  Work.  A  vast 
service  to  the  whole  social  order  has 
already  been  rendered  by  this  committee, 
and  it  must  not  be  dropped  or  subordi- 
nated as  the  Fair  is  brought  to  a 
conclusion.  The  ladies  of  this  com- 
mittee, remaining  in  its  charge,  are  less 
self-assertive,  perhaps,  than  they  should 
be,  and  it  is  quite  certain  that  the 
Governor  and  the  chiefs  of  the  Commis- 
sion  will  readily  permit  the  fullest  degree 
of  reporting  upon  Woman's  Work  as  the 
Fair  progresses.      The  plan  having   been 

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laid  with  sucli  elaborate  care  and  full- 
ness, it  cannot  be  possible  that  it  will 
fail  to  be  shown  in  tbe  results  as  fully 
as  it  bas  done  in  tbe  outline  of  design. 
It  is  proper,  bowever,  to  limit  tbis  state- 
ment of  tbe  general  relation  Mrs.  Lucas 
beld  to  public  affairs,  to  tbe  cbanges 
produced  immediately  by  tbe  sbock  of 
ber  illness  and  deatb.  Tbe  emotions  felt 
by  all  tbe  circle  of  ber  friends,  official 
and  personal,  were  overwhelming  at  tbe 
time.  Tbe  letters  of  condolence  bere 
given  are  none  of  tbem  formal,  and 
none  of  tbe  acts  or  resolutions  passed 
by  tbe  Boards  or  Committees  are  with- 
out strong  evidence  that  their  authors 
felt  tbe  loss  as  a  great  and  personal 
one.  It  is,  therefore,  better  to  limit  the 
present  statement  to  this  mere  introduc- 
tion,   and    to    refer   those   who   may   read 


it  to  the  more  extended  history  of  her 
public  career  which  constitutes  the  second 
part   of   this   Memorial. 


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Letters  of  Condolence. 


Letters  of  Condolence. 


The  following  telegrams  and  letters  of 
condolence  were  received  at  their  several 
dates,  as  the  immediate  expression  of 
sympathy  and  respect  of  their  writers. 
They  are  here  given,  nearly  in  fnll,  as 
received : 

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Robert  E.  Pattison,  Governor : 

You  have  my  warmest  sympathy  in  this  hour 
of  sad  bereavement.  The  interests  of  the  State 
have  lost  in  Mrs.  Lucas  a  warm  advocate.  She 
made  a  deep  impression  by  her  interest  in  the 
silk  culture,  and  by  her  efforts  in  behalf  of 
Pennsylvania  at  the  Exposition. 

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World's  Fair  Grounds, 

Chicago,  May  9,  1893. 
From  A.  B.  Farquhar,  Executive  Commissioner  : 
Accept  my  heartfelt  sympathy  in  your  great 
misfortune  ;  your  gentle,  beautiful  wife  was  dear 
to  us  all. 


Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Rev.  Herman  L.  Duhring : 

I  have  just  heard  of  your  dear  wife's  death,  and 
the  loss  to  you  must  certainly  be  a  great  one, 
and  to  the  children  even  greater.  But  what  a 
record  she  has  left  of  so  many  good  works  for 
our  blessed  Master!  Truly  she  went  about 
doing  good  everywhere,  and  verily  she  has  gone 
both  to  her  rest  and  her  reward,  in  that  blessed 
home  where  sorrow  and  sickness  are  no  more  a 
burden. 


4027  Walnut  Street, 
Philadelphia,  May  10,  1893. 
From  Bishop  O.  W.  Whitaker : 

I  beg  leave  to  tell  you  of  my  sympathy  with 
you  in  the  great  loss  you  have  sustained.  I  have 
feared  for  more  than  two  years  that  Mrs.  Lucas 


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was  overtaxing  her  strength,  and  that  the  Church 
might  soon  be  deprived  of  her  invaluable  aid. 
Everywhere  she  will  be  greatly  missed,  and 
everywhere  she  has  been  her  works  will  follow 
her. 

With  heartfelt  remembrance  of  the  good  she 
did,  and  greatest  sympathy  with  you, 

I  am,  sincerely  yours, 

O.  W.  Whitaker. 


June  30,  1893. 
From  Bishop  A.  C.  Coxe : 

Need  I  say  how  much  I  am  pained  to  learn 
of  the  decease  of  that  amiable  and  remarkable 
Christian  lady,  your  excellent  and  exemplary 
wife?  You  have  the  condolence  of  multitudes 
whom  her  life  and  labors  have  blessed ;  and 
through  our  common  and  valued  friend. 
Dr.  Ashton,  I  have  learned  so  much  of  her  life 
and  character  that  mine  is  no  common  tribute 
of  sympathy  and  regret. 

Faithfully  yours,  in  the  love  of  Christ, 
A.  Cleveland  Coxe, 
Bishop  of  Western  New  York. 


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Trenton,  N.  J.,  May  ii,  1893. 
From  Bishop  John  Scarborough  : 

My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas :    Though  I  could  not  be 
with    you    to-day,    you   have    my    prayers   and 
sympathy  in  your  great  loss  and  sorrow.     I  had 
the  most  profound  reverence  and  regard  for  your 
dear  wife's  character  ;  she  was  the  most  unselfish 
woman.       The    sad    news    of    her    death    was 
brought  to  me  in  the  Convention  by  Mr.  Milby, 
and  while  I  was  not  wholly  unprepared  for  it,  I 
still  find  it  hard  to  realize  that  I  will  never  again 
hear  her  greeting  or  see  her  face  on  this  side  of 
the  veil.      She  won  my  admiration,  many  years 
ago,  as  a  woman  of  affairs,  and  every  year  my 
admiration  grew.      She  will   be  missed  as   few 
others    would     be — your     loss    of    course,    the 
greatest,  then  the  children  next.     But  she  filled 
a  large  place  in  the  world,  and  outside  the  home 
there  will  be  many  an  aching  void.     My  own 
personal  obligations  to  you  both  have  been  very 
large  for  the  generous  gift  of  Church  property  at 
Gibbsboro.      I  wish  now  that  in  some  way  that 
little  Church  that  she  named  and  loved  might  be 
made  a  memorial  of  her. 

I  need  not  tell  you  where  to  look  for  comfort 
in  this  hour ;  the  words  of  friends,  though  well 


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meant,  will  sound  empty.  There  is  but  one  that 
can  pour  balm  into  your  aching  heart.  Look  to 
Him  and  He  will  enable  you  to  bear  what  He 
sends. 

My  wife  joins  me  in  messages  of  love  and 
condolence,  and  though  she  did  not  know 
Mrs.  Lucas  as  well  as  I  did,  yet  she  knew  her 
well  enough  to  recognize  her  wonderful  power 
and  great  goodness.  May  God  comfort  you,  and 
strengthen  you  by  His  grace  to  bear  what  he 
sends  you.  Remember  me  kindly  to  your 
children  and  believe  me. 

Your  friend  sincerely, 

John  Scarborough. 


The  Deanery,  Denver,  Colorado, 

May  i6,  1893. 
From  Rev.  H.  Martyn  Hart : 

My  Dear  Old  Friend  :    I  was  thinking  of  you 

when  the    postman  put  the   black-edged   letter 

into  my  hand,  and  I  felt  she  had  gone.     Well,  all 

I  pray  is,  that  you  and  I  may  be  where  she  of  a 

certainty  is.      Good,  dear,  capable   and   blessed 

woman  !      Mrs.  Hart  wrote  two  or  three  months 

ago,  but  she   got   the   wrong   address,  and   the 

letter  came  back  through  the  dead  letter  office. 

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She  would  like  to  hear  how  it  all  came,  from 
Nellie.  But  I  know  that  the  thread  of  life 
gradually  wound  off  the  spool  and  she  departed. 

I  am  far  more  sorry  for  you — to  have  such  a 
wife,  and  then  to  be  without  her,  is  indeed  to 
feel  a  want.  Try  to  feel  she  is  near  you,  and  try 
to  be  and  do  what  she  would  like  you  to  be. 
But  the  heart  knoweth  its  own  bitterness,  and 
no  other  intermeddleth  with  it,  and  nothing  on 
earth  will  make  up  for  your  loss.  I  only  hope 
God  will  give  you  help  to  "go  softly"  the  bit 
of  the  way  you  have  left  to  go,  and  then  we 
will  all  soon  be  there. 

My  wife,  of  course,  sends  her  love  to  you  all. 
She  often,  often  talked  of  her.  She  made  a  great 
impression  on  her. 

Ever  in  much  sympathy,  yours, 

H.  Martyn  Hart 


1240  South  Broad  Street, 
Philadelphia,  June  27,  1893. 
From  Rev.  James  S.  Stone : 

My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas:  I  will  do  as  you  wish 
me  and  have  the  sermon  printed  in  a  form  that 
will  please  you  and  all  who  may  read  it.  I  am 
so  glad  you  liked  it.     It  was  my  great  desire  to 

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say  words  that  in  themselves  would  be  worthy  of 
my  subject — or  to  put  it  in  another  way,  my  love 
for  you  and  yours  was  such,  that  I  wanted  the 
sermon  to  be  both  an  exact  delineation  of  Mrs. 
Lucas,  and  also  as  far  as  I  could  possibly  make 
it,  a  finished  piece  of  art.  My  affection  must 
be  understood  in  my  effort. 

I  would  have  done  more — anything  for  you 
that  was  in  my  power.  God  bless  you  iu  these 
sad  days,  and  make  still  more  real  the  assurance 
that  she  is  at  rest. 

Will  you  kindly  fill  up  the  blanks  in  the 
enclosed,  so  that  I  may  add  it  to  the  sermon? 
With  love  to  you  all,  I  remain, 

Yours  sincerely, 

James  S.  Stone. 


1224  Chestnut  Street, 
Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Rev.  T.  A.  Femley : 

You  will  pardon  the  liberty  taken  by  a  com- 
parative stranger,  but  my  sincere  sympathy  with 
you  in  your  great  sorrow  will  be  a  sufficient 
apology. 

I  had  the  pleasure  of  some  acquaintance  with 
your   departed  wife.    I   knew  her  as  a  positive 


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friend  of  tlie  Christian  Sabbath.  I  admired  her 
for  the  noble  stand  she  took  on  the  Ladies' 
Board  in  favor  of  Sunday  closing  of  the  Colum- 
bian Exposition,  and  I  had  learned  to  esteem 
her  as  a  Christian  lady. 

Her  works  do  follow  her — she  has  done  her 
part,  and  has  entered  upon  her  great  and  eternal 
reward.  While  you  are  sitting  under  the 
shadow  of  this  great  sorrow,  may  I  remind 
you,  my  dear  brother,  that  He  doeth  all  things 
well.  You  mourn  not  as  those  without  hope. 
The  beautiful,  gone  out  from  your  earthly  home, 
has  expanded  into  a  better  and  happier  life — in 
the  House  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the 
Heavens. 


Board   of  Lady   Managers,   World's   Columbian 
Commission. 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 

Chicago,  May  lo,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas: 

Dear  Sir:  In  accordance  with  the  following 
resolution,  adopted  by  the  Executive  Committee 
of  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers,  I  have  the 
honor  to  transmit  you  herewith  a  copy  of  a 
communication   adopted   by  said   committee   at 


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a   meeting   lield    May  ninth,   eighteen   hundred 
and  ninety-three. 

Most  truly  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 

Resolved,  That  a  communication  conveying 
suitable  expressions  of  sympathy  and  regret  be 
sent  to  Mr.  John  Lucas,  of  Philadelphia. 

Whereas,  Our  Heavenly  Father,  on  the  eighth 
day  of  May,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
ninety-three,  called  to  a  better  world  our 
esteemed  colleague,  Mrs.  Harriet  Anne  Lucas, 
of  Pennsylvania,  who  has  during  previous  meet- 
ings of  our  Board,  been  one  of  our  number, 
sitting  in  our  councils  and  taking  part  in  our 
deliberations ;  and. 

Whereas,  It  is  fitting  that  we  pause  at  this 
time  to  heed  the  admonitions  which  are 
suggested  to  us  by  this,  another  visitation  from 
the  messenger  of  death ;  and. 

Whereas,  It  is  appropriate  that  we  express 
our  appreciation  of  one  who  with  willing  hands 
has  ever  been  ready  to  labor  for  the  advance- 
ment of  her  sex,  and  to  carry  out  in  every 
possible  way  the  plans  and  purposes  of  our 
Board;  therefore  be  it 

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Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Mrs.  Harriet 
Anne  Lucas,  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of 
the  World's  Columbian  Commission,  has  lost 
one  of  its  most  loved  and  useful  members,  one 
who  was  recognized  by  all  as  a  high  type  of 
Christian  womanhood;  and  further  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  the  bereaved 
ones  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in  this  their  hour 
of  great  loneliness. 

Resolved,  That  this  tribute  to  the  memor>^  of 
our  loved  associate  be  spread  upon  our  minutes, 
and  an  engrossed  copy  of  the  same  sent  to 
the  afflicted  family. 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Allen, 
Mrs.  Belle  H.  Perkins, 
Ellen  A.  Ford. 


I  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true 
and  correct  copy  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Lady 
Managers,  at  its  session  in  Chicago,  Illinois, 
May  ninth,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
ninety-three. 


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Chicago,  May  9,  1893. 
From  A.  B.  Farquliar, 

Executive  Commissioner : 
Mr.    John    Lucas:    It   was    good   of    you   to 
telegraph  me.     You  knew  how  deeply  I  would 
sympathize  with  you  all. 

Mrs.   Lucas  was  altogether  one  of   the  most 
lovely  women  whom  it  has  ever  been  my  good 
fortune  to  meet.     "To  see  her  was  to  love  her, 
to  know  her  a  liberal   education."     Her   death 
has  cast  a  gloom  upon  every  one   here.     Mrs. 
Palmer  has  several  times  asked  me  about  her. 
You  have  your  children — one  of  the  loveliest 
families    I    have    ever    been    favored   to   know. 
But   nothing   can   ever   take   the   place   of    the 
wife    and    the    mother.      Words   of    mine   can 
bring  no  comfort.    I  am  not  attempting  to  offer 
consolation ;  but  a  suggestion  I  may  offer — that 
is — that  you  keep  occupied,  push  your  business, 
and   everything   that  will    take   up  your   time; 
and   encourage    the    daughters    to    be   busy  at 
something.      Work  during   the   day  until   tired 
nature  forces  sleep  at  night,  and  time — the  great 
healer — will  eventually  soothe. 

I  am  very  sincerely  your  friend, 

A.  B.  Farquhar, 
Executive  Commissioner. 


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Harrisburg,  May  lo,  1893. 
John  Lucas,  Esq. 

Dear  Sir:  Since  I  have  been  associated  with 
your  wife  on  the  State  Columbian  Board,  I  have 
come  to  know  her  so  well,  and  to  esteem  her 
so  highly,  that  perhaps  in  some  remote  degree 
I  can  appreciate  what  your  great  sorrow  must 
be.  She  was  so  earnest,  so  sincere,  so  lovely 
in  disposition  and  character,  that  every  one 
who  met  her  must  feel  her  loss,  even  while 
believing  that  she  is  happier  now,  being  freed 
from  human  shackles  and  human  pain. 

I  have  feared  for  some  time  that  she  was 
working  beyond  her  strength,  but  I  hoped  that 
rest  would  again  restore  her  energy. 

Our  entire  Board  will  miss  her  deeply,  and 
mourn  with  you  with  truest  sympathy. 

Mabel  Cronise  Jones. 


Woman's  Building, 

Chicago,  May  8,  1893. 

Miss  Estelle  Russel  writes: 

It  was  with  the  greatest  sorrow  that  I  heard 
to-day,  through  Mrs.  Palmer's  secretary,  of  the 


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death  of  dear  Mrs.  Lucas.  I  cannot  tell  how 
badly  I  feel.  I  only  wish  that  I  was  in 
Philadelphia,  that  I  might  possibly  be  able  to 
do  something.  I  felt  the  last  time  I  saw  her 
— the  day  before  I  left  for  Chicago — that  she 
could  not  last  much  longer;  yet  when  the 
worst  came,  it  was  such  a  shock.  How  every 
one  will  miss  her!  Still  we  should  not  grieve, 
for  she  was  a  great  sufferer,  and  is  happy 
now,  and  at  rest 


Philadelphia,  May  8,  1893. 
Mr.  Wm.  Underdo wn  writes : 

I  was  greatly  surprised  this  morning  to  hear 
from  Dr.  Stone  of  the  death  of  your  beloved 
wife.  Please  accept  my  deepest  sympathy  (in 
which  my  dear  wife  and  daughter  will  unite) 
in  this  hour  of  sorrow  and  bereavement ;  but  try 
and  not  think  of  her  as  dead,  but  only  gone  to 
her  eternal  rest,  after  a  life  of  noble  work  for  the 
good  of  others.  How  many  in  this  City  of 
Brotherly  Love,  and  other  places,  will  remember 
her  affectionately.  I  will  call  and  see  you  as 
soon  after  the  funeral  as  possible. 


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Shawmont,  May  8,  1893. 
Another  friend  writes: 

I  heard  with  sorrow,  this  noon,  of  the 
departure  of  your  beloved.  Her  earthly  cares 
have  at  last  been  brought  to  a  close,  to  receive 
that  Heavenly  blessing  she  has  so  well  earned. 
Hov/  nobly  she  bore  the  cross,  and  well  she 
deserves  the  crown !  All  those  who  knew  her 
good  and  kind  nature  must  join  in  asking 
God's  blessing. 

A  more  fond  mother  never  lived,  and  with 
all  her  family  cares  she  was  ever  ready  to 
reach  out  and  help  lighten  the  burdens  of 
others,  much  beyond  her  physical  strength. 
This  earth  has  certainly  parted  with  a  Queen 
of  her  sex. 

What  we  look  upon  as  a  disaster  is,  after  all, 
a  great  promotion.  If  ever  Heaven  welcomed 
a  pure  and  holy  spirit  the  occasion  exists  now 
with  your  beloved.  I  am  reminded  now  of 
the  consoling  lines  inserted  in  this  notice, 
of  the  departure  of  my  beloved  daughter : 

The  tomb  is  not  a  blind  alley,  it  is  a  thoroughfare  ; 
It  closes  in  the  twilight  to  open  on  the  dawn. 


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Atlantic  City,  N.  J.,  May  9,  1893. 
Henry  Wootton  writes: 

I  have  just  been  informed  of  the  death  of 
your  dear  wife;  no  words  can  make  amends 
for  the  great  loss  you  have  sustained. 

A  true  wife  and  a  devoted  mother,  no 
higher  eulogy  can  be  pronounced  upon  any 
woman.  Truly  the  great  central  sun  of  your 
household  has  gone  down;  and  I  most  truly, 
deeply  sympathize  with  you  in  your  great 
affliction. 


1832  Thirteenth  Street,  N.  W., 

Washington,  May  9,  1893. 
From     Thomas     Y.    Yeates,    Secretary    of 
St.  George's  North  American  Union : 
I  have  this  a.  m.  been  informed  by  Brother 
Underdown  of  your  great  loss,  and  I  hasten  to 
tender  the  sympathies  of  a  husband  who  has  a 
noble,   faithful   and   loving   wife,   and   who  can 
therefore,  to   some   extent,  appreciate   what   the 
loss  of  such  a  wife  as  yours  is  to  you. 


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Romaine,  Baltimore,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Hon.  Edgar  G.  Miller : 

I  cannot  refrain  from  writing  a  little  word  to 
you.  The  sad  intelligence  reaches  us  to-day  of 
the  departure  of  your  companion  and  our 
friend.  Her  poor  health  and  weakness  of  frame 
must  have  led  you  to  the  consciousness  of  this 
coming ;  but  the  blow  falls  heavily,  not  only 
upon  her  beloved  family,  but  upon  all  with 
whom  she  was  associated.  She  was  so  gentle, 
yet  so  energetic;  so  intelligent,  so  kind,  so 
untiring.  Her  monument  is  already  raised  in 
her  good  works,  and  in  her  admirable  family 
around  you  still.  May  you  and  they  be  com- 
forted by  the  thought  of  her  attained  peace, 
and  the  loving  memory  in  which  she  will  be 
held  by  so  many. 


Shawmont,  Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Mrs.  Cora  Shaw  Wilson : 

From  the  depths  of  my  heart  I  feel  a 
daughter's  sympathy  and  affection  for  you  in 
the  heavy  sorrow  that  has  fallen  upon  you. 

I  have  felt  the  weight  of  the  "  Cross,"  and 
know  how  the  heart  cries  out  against  the  hand 
of  death ;  but  above  and  beyond  it  all,  like  a  star, 


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has  risen  the  ascension,  the  glorious  promises 
of  "The  Christ"  and  the  hope  of  Heaven,  and 
I  am  comforted. 

May  you  feel  the  loving  consolation  of  the 
Saviour  who  is  ever  with  us  all,  in  the  sunshine 
and  shadows  of  life. 

Surely  in  all  the  realms  of  Heaven  there  can 
be  no  more  beautiful  spirit  than  Mrs.  Lucas. 
Womanhood  has  been  elevated  by  her  charity, 
tenderness  and  godliness  of  purpose. 

Well  may  we  wonder  how  it  is  that  such  an 
one  should  be  taken ;  but  Heaven  hath  her  needs 
as  well  as  earth,  and  thus  it  is  that  the  flowers 
of  earth  to-day  become  the  flowers  of  Heaven 
to-morrow. 


Shawmont,  Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Joseph  Wilson  : 

The  true,  gentle,  womanly  Mrs.  Lucas  has 
gone  beyond  the  low-hanging  white  clouds, 
and  the  high  blue  dome  above ;  but  a  fragrance 
like  the  odor  of  the  white  violet  pervades  the 
memory  of  that  "  Sister  of  Mercy  "  to  mankind, 
and  though  no  sympathy  of  mine  can  alleviate 
your  sufiering,  yet  I  would  have  you  know  at 
this  period  that  my  eyes  are  wet  with   yours, 


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that  lier  lovely  form  stands  before  me  magnified 
and  glorified  with  the  sanctity  of  the  life  I  loved 
to  quote  as  the  exemplification  of  an  unselfish, 
loving  mother.  May  God  bless  the  memory  of 
such  a  mother — I  say  this  as  a  son. 


Camden,  N.  J.,  May  lo,  1893. 
From  George  F.  Fort,  Esq. : 

In  common  with  your  host  of  friends,  sympa- 
thizing with  you  just  now,  let  me  also  send  my 
line  of  sorrows  for  the  loss  of  your  wife — a 
calamity  so  great,  that  no  words  are  equal  to 
expressing  it. 

I  had  always  looked  upon  your  household  as  a 
typical  one,  and  where  such  thorough  sympa- 
thetic affection  existed  as  between  yourself  and 
Mrs.  Lucas  it  would  be  impossible  to  imagine 
one  more  so. 


Washington,  May  11,  1893. 
From  Charles  F.  Benjamin,  Esq. : 

You  have  the  true  sympathy  of  friends  and 
fellow-countrymen  here  for  the  loss  that  has 
come  upon  you  and  your  household,  and  there  are 
some  of  us  that  cannot  soon  forget  the  gracious 
one  from  whom  you  are  parted  for  a  time. 

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New  York,  May  ii,  1893. 
From  Jotin  F.  Cannon  : 

I  know  that  this  letter  will  find  yon  filled  with 
grief  at  the  loss  of  your  dear  wife.  You  have 
indeed  sufiered  a  great  afiliction  ;  a  more  faithful 
partner  never  lived,  and  few  men,  I  venture  to 
say,  ever  enjoyed  more  domestic  tranquillity 
than  yourself  "  A  true  wife  and  a  devoted 
mother;"  no  higher  eulogy  can  be  pronounced 
upon  any  woman.  Truly  the  great  central  sun 
of  your  household  has  gone  down,  and  I  most 
truly,  deeply  sympathize  with  you  and  yours  in 
your  afiliction.  I  deeply  realize  that  expressions 
of  condolence  wholly  fail  to  restore  the  loved  and 
lost  one,  yet  I  cannot  but  hope  that  the  heartfelt 
sympathy  of  a  sincere  friend  will  not  be  deemed 
intrusion  on  your  grief 


May  12,  1893. 
From  Mrs.  Julia  Trenwith  : 

I  do  not  think  there  is  any  one  who  can 
sympathize  more  with  you  than  we  can  in  your 
very  severe  loss  of  your  noble  and  good  wife. 
Oh,  how  sad  it  is  to  give  up  our  loved  ones ! 
But  we  must  bow  with  submission  to  our  Holy 
Father,  and  say,  "Thy  will  be  done."     I  have  a 


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precious  legacy  from  Mrs.  Lucas,  in  a  beautiful 
letter  which  she  wrote  to  us  while  in  bed,  and  I 
shall  always  treasure  it. 


1 8  Hopper  Street,  Utica,  N.  Y., 

May  12,  1893. 
From  Daniel  Batchelor,  Esq.  : 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Underdown,  received  on  the 
ninth  instant,  brought  me  the  sad  news  of  your 
bereavement.  I  know  well  enough  that  without 
my  using  the  conventional  words  of  condolence, 
yoii  will  believe  me  when  I  say  I  deeply  sympa- 
thize with  you  in  your  great  affliction.  More 
than  thirty  years  ago  I  lost  a  dear  wife  and  have 
since  then  been  afflicted  many  times  by  the  loss 
of  daughters,  son,  sisters,  brothers,  and  last 
month  a  dear  grand-daughter  in  her  nineteenth 
year.  Dear  John,  it  is  an  adage  that  "  the 
penalty  of  longevity  is  that  our  friends  die  away 
from  us."  I  think  that  it  is  one  of  the  penalties 
of  living  at  all. 

Yesterday's  mail  brought  me  a  letter  in  your 
own  handwriting,  and  enclosing  a  copy  of  most 
tenderly  pathetic  verses,  composed  by  you,  for 
your  dear  one,  dated  December  16,  1892.  There 
is  an  exquisitely  natural  pathos  in  your  lines  and 

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most  admirably  expressed.  I  have  read  them  to 
my  wife  who  said  on  hearing  them,  "How 
sacred  that  poem  must  be  to  Mr.  Lucas  now." 

"  But  if  the  Spring,  ah !  if  the  Spring  led  on 
to  Summer."  Let  it  not  be  doubted  but  that 
the  Spring  led  your  dear  one  on  to  the  eternal 
Summer  of  everlasting  bliss. 

May  the  blessings  of  Heaven  come  to  you  in 
the  sweet  remembrance  of  the  dear  departed. 


Olean,  N.  Y.,  May  12,  1893. 
From  Rev.  J.  W.  Ash  ton  : 

I  have  been  unable  to  write  while  feeling  the 
pangs  of  grief  which  dear  Mrs.  Lucas'  death  has 
occasioned.  And  now,  although  all  is  over,  as  it 
were,  I  cannot  convey  any  idea  of  my  sense  of 
personal  loss,  or  the  deep  sympathy  that  I  feel 
for  you  and  the  dear  bereaved  family. 

I  can  only  say,  she  was  a  woman  of  unques- 
tioning faith  and  unbounded  love,  and  will  be 
missed  more  and  more  as  years  roll  on.  Such 
love,  such  friendship,  such  heroic  devotion  to 
what  she  deemed  her  duty,  has  rarely  been 
equalled,  never  surpassed. 

It  was  impossible,  of  course,  for  me,  under  the 
circumstances,  to  attend  the  funeral,  and  I  did 


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not  encourage  Mrs.  Ashton's  going  for  similar 
reasons.  It  is  a  comfort  to  have  been  with  her 
a  few  times  before  she  passed  away,  as  it  was  her 
wish  that  I  should  be,  and  in  any  way  to  have 
ministered  to  her  happiness.  Her  memory  is 
cherished,  as  she  was  one  of  our  dearest  and 
truest  friends. 


St.  Louis,  May  12,  1893. 
From  T.  M.  Page,  Esq. : 

I  have  this  moment  seen  a  notice  of  your 
bereavement,  and  am  moved  to  write  to  you  by 
recollection  of  your  last  interview  with  my 
father,  in  November,  1891.  He  lived  until  the 
following  February,  and  often  told  me  how 
glad  he  was  to  have  seen  you  once  more  on 
earth. 

It  is  in  times  of  sorrow  that  men  feel  the  need 
of  honest  sympathy  of  their  fellow-men.  I 
know  that  lesson  by  heart.  For  three  3^ears  it 
has  been  brought  home  to  me.  In  that  time  I 
have  lost  both  father  and  mother,  and  now,  an 
only  child,  unmarried,  I  am  living  alone  in  the 
old  home. 

Fortunately,  you  have  children  to  lighten  your 
loss  by  sharing  it  with  you.     But  at  your  time 

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of  life  such  separation  is  hard  for  mortal  strength 
to  bear. 

That  the  love  yet  left  to  you  may  give  you 
precious  cheer  is  the  wish  of 

T.  M.  Page. 


1329  South  Broad  Street, 

May  13,  1893. 

John  Lucas,  Esq.  : 

Dear  Friend  :  I  felt  the  deepest  regret  at  the 
announcement  of  the  death  of  Mrs.  Lucas,  and  I 
feel  it  my  duty  to  prepare  a  memorial  of  her 
singularly  great  and  honorable  public  services, 
for  publication  both  in  the  journals,  probably  the 
"  Press,"  and  in  permanent  form  for  presveration. 

Her  purposes  were  so  much  above  the  usual 
objects  and  ambitions  of  even  the  best  of  those 
who  engage  in  the  public  service,  that  she 
commanded  the  respect  and  secured  the  action  of 
the  highest  authorities  in  whatever  she  proposed. 
I  was  very  much  struck  with  this  fact,  when  she 
visited  Washington  to  obtain  an  appropriation  in 
the  aid  of  silk  culture,  and  I  am  quite  sure  that 
no  other  person  could,  and  certainly  no  other 
person  ever  did,  exercise  an  equal  influence  in 
such  a  case. 


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4G3415 


It  is  a  great  misfortune  that  her  health  and 
life  could  not  have  been  spared  to  continue  the 
direction  of  women's  interest  in  the  World's 
Fair  at  Chicago  ;  she  would  have  honored  Penn- 
sylvania, and  the  whole  country  indeed,  much 
beyond  what  I  fear  will  be  the  result  now. 

I  have  had  such  especial  opportunity  to 
participate  in  Mrs.  Lucas'  efforts  in  the  public 
service  that  I  think  it  my  first  duty  to  prepare 
the  memorial  I  have  here  referred  to.  I  shall  be 
g-lad  to  know  if  you  have  any  wishes  or  sugges- 
tions in  regard  to  it,  and  to  conform  to  them  in 
whatever  I  do. 

Very  truly  and  respectfully, 

Lorin  BlodgeL 


Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1892. 
From  Henry  Foster,  M.  D.  : 

It  is  with  great  sorrow  that  we  have  heard 
that  Mrs.  Lucas  has  left  you,  and  we  hasten  to 
express  to  you,  and  to  your  family,  the  sincere 
sympathy  of  Mrs.  Foster  and  myself  in  this 
great  bereavement. 

Mrs.  Lucas  seemed  so  frail  last  autumn,  that 
we  feared  the  result  of  the  great  responsibili- 
ties which  she  was  carrying ;  but  her  indomitable 

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will  seemed  to  rise  above  her  physical  condi- 
tion, and  we  hoped  she  might  be  enabled  to 
complete  her  work. 

May  God  help  you  all   to   bear   this    sorrow, 
and     comfort    your    hearts     in     this     time    of 
trouble.     Mrs.    Foster   joins   me   in  the  expres- 
sion of    our   sympathy,    and    the    assurance    of 
our  regard. 


Louisville,  Ky.,  May  13,  1893. 
From  J.  R.  Goldsborough  : 

I  have  just  read  in  a  letter  from  the  office 
the  sad  notice  of  your  recent  lamentable 
bereavement,  and  while  I  know  that  the  ten- 
derest  expressions  of  sympathy  and  condolence 
can  do  but  little  to  assuage  the  deep  grief  that 
must  come  with  such  dispensations,  the  heart 
promptings  of  one  who  has  been  befriended, 
not  only  by  the  living,  but  by  the  loved  one 
gone  to  her  reward,  cause  me  to  proffer  to  you 
in  your  sorrow  the  sincere  sympathy  and 
sorrow  I  feel  for  you,  and  which  is  extended 
with  equal  feeling  to  all  the  members  of  your 
bereaved  and  sorrow-stricken  household. 


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Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y.,  May  15,  1893. 
From  Bradford  Loveland,  M.  D.  : 

I  was  mucb.  pained  to  learn,  as  I  did  only  a 
few  days  since,  of  your  very  sad  bereavement, 
and  my  beart  bas  gone  out  toward  you  in 
your  affliction. 

Few  men  could  bave  sucb  a  bereavement, 
for  few  men  bave  sucb  a  wife  to  lose. 

But  I  suppose  we  must  look  to  "  Him  wbo 
knowetb  all  tbings,  and  never  afflicts  willingly 
tbe  cbildren  of  men,"  and  in  Him  and  from 
Him,  get  tbe  strengtb  and  patience  to  bear 
wbat  be  puts  on  us. 

Tbe  remembrance  of  ber  life  will  be  to  you 
as  tbe  last  sweet  fragrance  of  roses  tbat  tbougb 
fallen,  bless  tbe  air  about  tbem,  till  you  go  to 
meet  ber  wbere  tbere  is  no  sickness,  no 
parting  and   no  deatb. 

You  may  feel  assured  tbat  you  bave  tbe 
beartfelt  sympatby  of  all  your  friends  and 
acquaintances   bere. 


Pbiladelpbia,  May  14,  1893. 
From  Henry  E.  Dwigbt,  M.D.  : 

I  tbank   you    for   tbe   kind    remembrance   of 
our  bousebold  in    tbe   mourning   card   received 


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yesterday.     For    thirty    years,    ever    since    my 
return     from     Europe     at     the    completion    of 
certain  studies  incidental  to  professional   life,  I 
have    had    the    privilege  of    knowing    yourself 
and   wife.     To    me    it  has   been  a  great    privi- 
lege, both  in  social   life    and    in    our    common 
duties   as   citizens,   to    observe    her    remarkable 
ability,    fitness    and    grace    in    every    circle    of 
society  in    which   she    moved— in   Church   and 
State,  among    the    rich,    in    the    higher   walks, 
among    the    poor    in    their    poverty,    she    was 
always  the  same  dignified,  intelligent,  eminently 
attractive  and  useful  woman. 

To    have  trained  such  a  family  from  infancy 
to    adult    years,    is    more    than    most    women 
accomplish   in  life  ;  to   have  been   the  guiding 
mind,  not   in  female   circles   only,    nor    in   one 
church     merely,     nor     in     beneficial     societies 
simply,  but   over    and    above    all   these,    to    be 
recognized     as    a    social     leader    in    our     best 
society,  in   all   forms  of  activity,    in    organiza- 
tions, which  begin  with  the  cradle,    and  follow 
the    poor,    the    sick,    and    the    helpless    to   the 
grave,     is     to     be    a    queen     among     women, 
wearing  a  coronet  of  the  highest  rank,  honored 
and  beloved  by  all  mankind. 


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Such,  my  dear  friend,  was  your  beloved 
partner  in  life.  We  all  share  with  you  this 
loss,  for  we  all  have  lost  a  friend,  a  partner  in 
our  common  work,  as  citizens,  as  parents,  as 
churchmen,  in  our  families,  and  our  beloved  city. 

This  is  the  Lord's  day,  fit  time  for  reflection, 
for  sympathy  with  those  in  sorrow  and  distress. 
I  would  say  more,  but  at  the  remembrance  of 
thirty  long  years  of  such  usefulness  for  God 
and  humanity,  the  record  speaks  for  itself.  It 
needs  no  eulogy.  With  the  tenderest  sympathy 
for  yourself  and  family, 

Henr>'  E.  Dwight. 


Roanoke,  Va.,  May  14,  1893. 
Messrs.  John  lyucas  &  Co., 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Gentlemen  :  Yours  of  the  9th  inst.  at  hand. 
I  am  very  sorry  to  hear  of  Mr.  Lucas'  sad 
bereavement  in  the  death  of  his  wife.  I  never 
had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  Mrs.  Lucas,  but 
have  heard  much  of  her  many  noble  and 
charitable  acts  and  Christian  virtues.  My 
friend,  Hugh  Mcllheny,  of  Staunton,  Va.,  told 
me  of  a  reception  she  gave  him  and  a  com- 
mittee of  gentlemen  sent  to  Philadelphia  from 

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Virginia,  on  some  charitable  mission,  and  how 
pleasant  and  gracefully  she  received  them,  with 
a  beautiful  and  appropriate  address. 

From  all  that  I  have  heard  of  her  she  must 
have    been    a    very    superior    woman.      Please 
extend  my  sympathy  and  regards  to  ]Mr.  lyucas. 
Very  respectfully, 

J.  M.  Westmoreland. 


lyctter  sent  by  the  firm  of  John  Lucas  &  Co.  to 
its  representatives  : 

Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 

We  regret  to  announce  the  decease,  on  the 
eighth  instant,  of  Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Lucas,  wife  of 
Mr.  John  Lucas. 

Mrs.  Lucas  had  been  quite  unwell  for  nearly 
two  years,  but  it  was  only  within  the  last  few 
months,  that  her  indomitable  energy  would 
succumb  to  the  feebleneness  of  the  body. 
Notwithstanding  the  enforced  confinement  to 
her  room,  she,  by  means  of  a  secretar}',  carried 
on  the  work  assigned  her,  as  a  Commissioner 
of  the  World's  Fair  from  Pennsylvania,  also 
her  interest  in  the  Woman's  Silk  Culture 
Association    (with     which     she     was    so     long 


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identified)  and  otlier  public  and  private 
charities.  Her  last  appearance  in  public,  was 
as  presiding  officer  at  a  meeting  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Commissioners,  and  in  a  reception 
tendered  its  members  by  herself.  Although 
suffering  intensely,  she  went  from  her  room, 
successfully  carried  out  the  programme,  and 
returned  never  to  leave  home  again. 

There  was  hardly  a  cause  needing  help  but 
what  Mrs.  Lucas  came  to  the  front  with 
assistance,  both  in  time  and  means.  The  energy 
displayed  m  sustaining  the  almost  innumerable 
charitable  interests,  public-spirited  endeavors, 
and  private  benevolences,  with  which  she  was 
connected,  doubtless  overtaxed  the  hitherto 
vigorous  constitution,  until  now  the  working 
time  is  over,  and  she  rests  from  her  self- 
sacrificing  labors. 

To  Mr.  John  lyUcas,  who  has  been  confined 
to  his  house  for  nearly  a  year,  the  separation  is 
most  sad  and  painful,  while  the  sons  and 
daughters  have  lost  one  of  the  kindest  and 
most  devoted  of  mothers. 

Yours  truly, 

John  lyucas  &.  Co. 


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3809  Chestnut  Street, 

May  15,  1893. 
From  John  Sparhawk,  Esq.  : 

Not  having  seen  you  when  I  called  at  your 
house,  last  week,  I  wish  to  avail  myself  of  this 
opportunity  of  saying  how  deep  and  earnest  has 
been  the  sympathy  we  all  have  felt  for  you  and 
yours  in  this  your  season  of  great  bereavement. 
The  removal  of  your  dear  wife,  however,  is  not 
a  loss  confined  to  your  own  immediate  home- 
circle.  It  is  a  sorrow  which  comes  to  take  its 
place  at  innumerable  firesides,  which  have  been 
made  brighter  by  her  life  and  influence.  It  is  a 
loss  to  her  city  and  her  race. 

I  shall  never  forget  the  days  we  all  spent 
together  in  the  South, — her  sunshine  and  her 
cheer.  I  especially  recall  her  kindly  words  to 
the  widow  of  the  man  who  was  accidentally 
killed  in  the  changing  of  the  gauge  in  North 
Carolina.  It  was  only  a  part  of  that  abundant 
charity  which  "  thinketh  no  evil,  and  which 
seeketh  not  its  own." 

Undoubtedly  the  days  of  her  years  have  been 
shortened  by  the  ministrations  which  spent  her 
strength  and  drained  her  vital  energies.     From 


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labors  such  as  tliese  she  falls  asleep,  and  through 
the  great  silence  passes  on  "to  where  beyond 
these  voices  there  is  peace." 


Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y., 

May  i6,  1893. 
From  Mrs.  Alice  F.  Tatum : 

My  thoughts  have  often  turned  to  you  and 
your  family  in  the  last  few  days,  since  I  heard 
of  the  great  sorrow  that  has  come  to  you, — a 
trial  so  great,  that  I  felt  it  was  beyond  the 
power  of  words  or  human  sympathy  to  reach. 
I  don't  know  any  one  of  whom  it  could  be  so- 
fitly  said,  "None  knew  her  but  to  love  her, 
none  named  her  but  to  praise."  I  do  thank 
you  very  much  for  sending  me  the  verses, 
which  reached  me  yesterday ;  they  are  very 
lovely,  and  I  prize  them  highly.  There  have 
been  many  expressions  of  kind  feelings  and 
sympathy  for  you  from  the  various  officers  of 
this  household,  and  from  the  servants  who 
waited  upon  both  of  you.  Dr.  Loveland 
intends  writing  to  you,  and  Dr.  Foster  would, 
I  am  sure,  send  a  special  message,  if  he  knew 
I  was  writing. 

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Washiugton,  May  17,  1893. 
Hon.  Jolin  Lucas : 

Dear  Friend  :  Just  received  notice  that  your 
good  wife  had  passed  to  her  reward.  The  good 
works  and  lovely  Christian  example  she  has 
perfumed  this  earth  with,  will  live  after  her, 
and  in  imperishable  characters.  It  is  inscribed  on 
the  hearts  of  all  that  knew  her.  Why  such  good 
women  should  be  taken,  and  those  left  who  but 
cumber  the  ground,  is  beyond  my  ken.  I  do  know 
the  world  is  better  that  Mrs.  Lucas  lived  in  it. 

It  must  be  a  comforting  solace,  that  the  good 
deeds  done  by  your  dear  wife,  will  also  rise  up 
to  call  her  blessed  and  be  a  benediction  to  you. 

Yours  truly, 

W.  W.  Dudley. 


Philadelphia,  May  17,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

I  am  gratified  by  your  kind  thoughtfulness 
in  sending  me  the  affectionate  remembrance 
card  of  one  who  was  so  active  and  devoted  to 
all  good,  benevolent  and  patriotic  work. 

In  the  death  of  your  beloved  wife  Philadelphia 
and  the  country  at  large  has  been  deprived  of 
the  inestimable  services  of  one  who  was 
eminent  in  her  zeal   and   activity  in  matters  of 


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common  weal,  as  well  as  in  active  Christian 
benevolence.  Her  place  cannot  be  supplied.  I 
am  sure  I  feel  and  express  but  the  general 
sentiment.  Permit  me  to  express  also  my  deep 
sympathy,  both  to  you  and  those  around  you, 
in  your  deep  affliction,  and  believe  me. 
Very  truly  yours, 

Edward  Shippen. 


13 16  Spruce  Street,  Philadelphia, 

May  18,  1893. 
From  Robert  C.  Ogden,  Esq. : 

In  common  with  your  large  circle  of  friends 

and    the   entire  community,  myself  and   family 

have   been  mourning   with  you  and   yours    the 

loss    of  Mrs.   Lucas.      I    have    no    theory  upon 

which  to    explain  the   mystery    of  sorrow,  and 

can  only,  out  of  an  experience  of  bereavement, 

tender  you  the   poor  comfort  of  my  sympathy, 

in  this  period  of  darkness  and  loss. 

Sincerely  yours, 

Robert  C.  Ogden. 


Chicago,  May  19,  1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas : 

I  was  much  pained  in  taking  up  a  paper  here, 

of    last    week,  to    read  of  the    death    of  your 

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good  wife.      I  must  send  just  a  line  to  express 
my  sympathy  in  this  great  trial. 

I  thought  of  her  the  other  day  as  I  was  in 
the  Fair  Grounds,  looking  at  some  of  the 
springing  flowers.  I  saw  one  named  "Director 
Lucas."  Her  influence  was  no  doubt  greatly 
felt  in  this  greatest  of  the  World's  Fairs. 

I  think  much  of  her  and  her  hard  faithful 
work  for  our  Home  of  Rest,  and  know  that  we 
are  much  indebted  to  her  for  faithful  service 
at  a  time  when  it  must  have  been  a  great 
strain  upon  her  health.  With  sincerest 
sympathy,  I  remain, 

Yours  very  truly, 

Robert  A.  Edwards, 
Rector  of  Church  of  St.  Matthias, 

Philadelphia. 

Kingston,  Ont,  May  19,  1893. 
Dear  Sir  and  Brother: 

I  am  in  receipt  to-day  of  the  mourning  card 
in  memory  of  your  late  and  excellent  wife, 
Harriet  Anne  Lucas.  Her  death  came  with 
terrible  force.  I  had  always  anticipated  the 
pleasure  of  entertaining  her  here  whenever 
the   Convention   should    be   held  in    this    city. 

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It  was  one  of  the  greatest  pleasures  I  looked 
forward  to.  On  behalf  of  the  Brethren  I  beg 
to  tender  you  and  the  members  of  your  family 
our  heartiest  sympathy  and  condolence  at  the 
irreparable  loss  you  have  sustained. 
With  kind  regards,  I  am, 

Yours,  fraternally, 

A.  W.  Smythe, 
President  St.  George's  Union. 


Springfield,  Eden  Bridge, 

Kent,  England,  May  20,   1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

On  opening  the  envelope  just  received  from 
you  I  was  saddened  and  startled  to  see  the 
news  of  the  great  bereavement  which  has 
fallen  upon  you  by  the  loss  of  your  wife, 
whom  to  know  was  to  respect  and  admire. 
For  the  bright  spirit  which  has  passed  away, 
and  now  pursues  her  upward  and  onward 
course  in  a  fuller  and  freer  life,  we  need  not 
grieve,  but  for  those  she  has  left  behind,  and 
upon  whose  lives  her  beneficent  light  was  cast, 
my  sympathy  flows  out,  and  I  would  beg  them 
never  to  think  for  one  moment  that  her  life 
has  passed  from  their  reach,  but  to  believe  that 


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that  self-sacrificing,  sympathetic  and  enthusiastic 
spirit,  which  once  tenanted  that  mortal  frame, 
is  still  with  them,  for  God's  children  in  Heaven 
and  God's  children  on  earth  are  both  in  their 
Father's  arms,  the  only  difference  being  that 
the  former  may  be  able  to  see  the  Father's 
face  more  clearly  than  the  latter. 

Fraternally  would  I  grasp  your  hand  in  this 
dark  period  of  your  life  and  express  my 
sympathy  with  you,  and  that  God  will  comfort 
you  and  yours,  as  He  only  can,  while  you 
learn  this  hard  lesson  of  submission,  is  the 
belief  of  your  sincere  friend, 

Edward  B.  Gilburt. 


Carlton  Club,  London,  May  20,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

I  received  yesterday  the  papers  with  the 
very  sad  intelligence  of  Mrs.  Lucas'  death,  and 
I  hasten  to  offer  yon  my  heartfelt  condo- 
lence. I  sympathize  with  you  sincerely  in 
your  heavy  afiliction.  I  well  know  how  you 
must  feel,  and  I  will  not  attempt  to  write  at 
length   at  such  a  time. 

Remembering  always  your  courtesies  and 
kindness   to   me,    and   regretting   that  there  is 


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nothing  that  I  can  say  or  do   that  will  lessen 
your  great  grief,  I  am, 

Yours  sincerely, 

(Sir)  John  H.  Puleston. 


34  Redcliffe  Gardens,  South  Kensington, 

May  20,  1893. 
My  Dear  Uncle  John : 

I    cannot    tell  you  how  inexpressibly  grieved 

I   was    to    find  from    the  paper  I  received  from 

you    to-day     of     the    terrible    blow    you    have 

received    in    losing     your     dear     wife    on    the 

eighth  of  this  month.     No  words  of  mine  can 

possibly     convey     comfort     to    your     bereaved 

heart.     I  can  but  pray  that  the  Great  Comforter 

will  be  with  you  Himself.     May  He  teach  you 

to  say,  as  dear  old    George    Herbert  says, 

' '  Yet  take  Thy  way  ;  for  sure  Thy  way  is  best. ' ' 

I  know  by  bitter  experience  the  awful  blank 
in  one's  life,  when  a  dearly-loved  one 
is  taken  from  us,  and  how  hard  it  is  to 
look  up  through  our  tears  and  say,  "  Thy  will 
be  done."  For  her  I  know  you  will  rejoice 
that  after  the  months  of  weary  suffering  she 
is  at  peace  and  happy  forever.  Many  will  miss 
her  active  ministry,  I  know,  and   the  blank  in 

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tiie  home-circle  will  be  inexpressible.  Your 
own  health  is  no  doubt  suffering  greatly  from 
the    shock,  but    I  do    trust    you    will    soon    be 


strong  again. 


May  He  who  knew  what  it  was  to  weep  at 
the  grave  of  a  dear  friend  comfort  you  all, 
dear  Uncle  and  Cousins. 

With  much  love  and  heartfelt  sympathy, 
your  loving  niece,  Harriet  (I^ucas). 


581  Sherbrooke  Street,  Montreal,  Canada. 

May  21,  1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

My  sister,  Mrs.  Stanley  Bagg,  has  asked  me 
to  enclose  her  card  to  the  family  ;  and  in  doing 
so  I  desire  to  send  a  few  lines  and  unite  with 
your  many  other  friends  in  expressing  our  very 
sincere  and  deep  sympathy  in  the  great  and 
overwhelming  sorrow  and  loss  that  has  come  to 
yourself  and  once  happy  home. 

As  my  memory  goes  back  over  the  many 
years  of  our  acquaintance,  and  I  recall  the 
invariable  courtesy  and  kindness  of  yourself 
and  dear  Mrs.  Lucas,  I  feel  that  our  friendship 
was  mutual  and  unfeigned  ;  and  though  my 
absence  from   Philadelphia   has  deprived   me  of 


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the  privilege  of  often  meeting  your  lovely  wife, 

I  have  always    entertained  a  very   high  respect 

for  her  gracious  accomplishments  and  Christian 

character,    as    exemplified    by  her  interests   and 

efforts    in    many    good    works.      After   a    most 

useful  and  well-spent    life  she  is   now  "  forever 

with  the  Lord." 

"  The  Saints  of  God  their  vigils  keep, 
While  yet  their  mortal  bodies  sleep, 
Till  from  the  dust,  they  too  shall  rise 
And  soar  triumphant  to  the  skies. 
Oh  !  happy  Saints  ;  forever  blest, 
At  Jesus'  feet  how  safe  your  rest." 

Accept,  dear   sir,    for   yourself    and    all   with 

you,  our    united    kind    regards    and    sympathy, 

and  believe  me. 

Very  faithfully  and  respectfully, 

Fanny  M.  Mitcheson. 


30  King's  Road,  Brighton,  England, 

May  21,  1893. 
My  Dear  Brother : 

We    received    a    newspaper    on    Friday    last, 

conveying  the  sad  news  of  dear  sister  Harriet's 

death,    with     great    sorrow.      We     sympathize 

with  you  very  much  in    the   loss    of  one  with 

whom     you  have  been  treading    life's  pathway 

for  so    many    years.     To  your  home  circle  the 

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loss  must  be  irreparable,  as  no  one  could 
bear  your  cbildren  speak  of  ber  witbout  see- 
ing bow  tenderly  sbe  was  loved. 

Wbile  sbe  was  in  England  last,  sbe  won 
tbe  love  of  botb  Alice  and  myself,  and  until 
tbe  last  few  montbs  we  bave  looked  forward 
to  seeing  ber  again  in  England.  Her  later 
letters  bave  breatbed  sucb  a  tone  of  illness, 
tbat  we  feared  tbe  day  of  parting  was  not  far 
off;  but  as  years  pass  on  and  old  age  gains 
upon  us  all,  tbe  time  seems  not  far  distant 
wben  we,  too,  sball  bave  joined  tbe  growing 
circle  in  Heaven. 

Let  us  know  bow  you  are,  wben  you  bave 
time  and  feel  like  writing.  We  often  speak 
of  you,  and  wonder  if  you  bave  found  relief 
for  your  rbeumatism.  Witb  our  love  and 
sympatby  to  all  your  family  and  to  yourself, 
Believe  me,  my  dear  brotber. 
Affectionately  yours, 

(Mrs.  Edward  Lucas)  M.  Lucas. 


Tallabassee,  Florida,  May  21,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

Some  one  bas  sent  me  from    Pbiladelpbia    a 
card    announcing     tbe    deatb    of    your    mucb- 


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beloved  wife,  and    my  beloved  friend.     It  is  a 
long-  time   since    I    beard    either    from    or    of 
ber,     tbougb    I    wrote    often    to    inquire,    and 
I  feared  tbat  eitber   berself    or    some    member 
of  ber    family    was     in    suffering    bealtb,    but 
I     was     not     prepared     for     sucb     distressing 
news,      wbicb      wberever     beard     will      carry 
sorrow.      Wbile    I    express   to   you  my  sincere 
sympathy    I    feel    tbat  I  need  consolation  my- 
self,    as    do     so    many     friends.       I    sincerely 
believe     there     never     lived    a     more     lovely 
woman,  a  more  beautiful  character.     I    am  too 
much  grieved   to   even  attempt   condolence.     I 
see  nothing  to  comfort ;  her  loss  is  irreparable, 
and   alone    in    sweet    memories   can    we    rest ; 
with  me    she   will   always    thus   live.      I  wish 
one  of  her  daughters   would   write   me  of  her 
last  days.     It    is   a   year   since  I  received   any 
communication    from    ber,    she    was    then   dis- 
tressed    about     the     health     of    her    youngest 
daughter  and  one  son. 

Present     me     most     affectionately     to     your 
family,  and  I  hope  that  they  and  yourself  will 
remember  that  you  have  a  friend  in  Florida. 
I  am,  with  great  esteem,  yours  truly, 

Ellen  Call  Long. 

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Highbury  Moor, 
Birmingliam,  England,  May  27,  1893. 
From  Hon.  Joseph  Chamberlain  : 

Dear  Mr.  Lucas:  I  have  received  with  much 
regret  your  card  announcing  the  bereavement 
which  you  have  recently  sustained.  I  beg  to 
recall  myself  to  your  recollection,  and  to  assure 
you  of  my  sincere  sympathy  in  your  affliction. 
Believe  me  to  be, 

Yours  very  truly, 

J.  Chamberlain. 


Philadelphia,  May  24,  1893. 

Mr.  John  Lncas  : 

My  Dear  Friend  :  Although  some  little  time 
has  elapsed  since  I  heard  of  the  death  of 
your  wife,  I  have  not  been  unmindful  of  you, 
and  desire  to  be  permitted  to  add  my  poor 
tribute  to  the  hosts  of  your  friends,  and  to 
say  how  sincerely  I  sympathize  with  you  and 
your  family  in  your  irreparable   loss. 

I  had  not  the  privilege  and  pleasure  to  be 
much  acquainted  with  Mrs.  Lucas,  but  have 
met  her  within  the  past  few  years  two  or 
three  times.  But  I  knew  of  her,  and  of 
many   of    her    good    works,    and    in    common 


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with    the    entire    community,    entertained    for 
her  a  very  high  regard  and  admiration. 

To  you  and  her  children  she  was  a  precious 
wife  and  mother — a  gift  from  God.  He  gave 
and  He  hath  taken.  The  work  on  earth 
completed,  He  called  her  home  to  be  forever 
with  Him  in  that  blessed  abode  prepared  for 
those  who  have  faithfully  loved  and  served 
Him. 

Sincerely  your  friend, 

Robert  J.  Shoemaker. 


74  Chatham  Street,  Liverpool, 

May  24,  1893. 
Dear    Mr.   Lucas  : 

Mrs.  R.  Wilson  has  sent  me  a  Philadelphia 
paper  containing  the  notice  of  dear  ]\Irs.  Lucas' 
death.  In  April  she  wrote  me  a  most  affection- 
ate letter,  telling  me  of  her  very  serious  illness. 
On  the  13  th  of  May  I  received  from  her 
a  pamphlet  and  her  photograph,  which  I 
shall  greatly  treasure  ;  and  though  knowing 
her  to  be  seriously  ill,  I  had  hoped  she 
would  recover,  but  it  has  pleased  our 
Heavenly  Father  to  call  her  to  her  well 
earned  rest.     To  you  and    her    large  family    it 

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is  a  sad  loss,  and  it  is  difficult  to  find  words 
to  express  my  grief  and  sympathy  in  such  a 
time  of  sorrow.  How  blessed  the  memory 
must  be  of  such  a  devoted  well-spent  life, 
though  comparatively  short.  We  had  indulged 
the  hope  of  her  paying  us  another  visit  to 
"  Kirkby,"  where  amidst  its  quiet  surroundings 
she  would  have   regained   health. 

I  hope  your  own  health  is  much  better 
than  when  your  late  dear  wife  wrote  to  me. 
With  deepest  sympathy  and  kind  remem- 
brance, believe  me  to  be. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Catharine  E.  Slack. 


Kirkby-on-Bain,  Horncastle,  England, 

May  24,  1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas: 

I  feel  quite  inadequate  to  express  to  your- 
self and  family  my  grief  and  sympathy  for 
the  loss  of  so  good  a  wife  and  mother.  It 
is  only  eight  days  since  I  received  her  last 
token  of  remembrance  and  kindness  to  me 
and  little  Robbie ;  a  short  time  previous 
Mrs.  Slack  sent  me  a  letter  she  had  received 
from  your   dear  wife.      We  were   both   grieved 

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to  note  how  very  ill  and  weak  she  was.  Often 
have  we  expressed  a  wish  that  we  could  have 
further  opportunities  of  spending  quiet  times 
together  in  my  little  home.  She  must  have 
been  a  hard  worker,  and  now  she  will  be 
enjoying  the  rest  of  her  faithful  stewardship. 
Hoping  yourself  and  family  will  be  sustained 
in  this  sad  trial,  and  with  affectionate  sympathy, 
I  remain. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

M.  Wilson. 


Green  Bank  House,  Birkdale, 

near  Liverpool,  England, 

May  27,  1893. 
From  William  Gibson,  Esq. : 

My  Dear  Sir :  The  receipt  of  your  remem- 
brance card,  also  of  newspaper  conveying  the 
melancholy  information  of  the  death  of  your 
good  wife,  caused  me  much  and  sincere  regret. 
I  remember  so  well  her  kindly  treatment  to 
myself  when  a  stranger  and  in  a  strange  land, 
and  her  conversation  as  regards  your  numerous 
offspring  made  me  look  upon  her  as  a  truly 
good  wife,  and  mother.  And  I  need  not  say 
that  most  sincerely  do  I  sympathize  with  you 

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under  this  great  trial  and  bereavement  and  offer 
my  condolence  under  it.  Young  in  years,  com- 
paratively, I  did  not  expect  to  liear  of  her  being 
so  early  called  away  from  a  life  in  which  she  has 
been  of  so  much  use  to  so  many  of  her  fellow 
creatures.  A  life  so  spent  that  it  must  leave  to 
you  naught  but  pleasing  reflections  in  your 
old  age. 


Vancouver,  B.  C,  May  25,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas : 

It  is  with  great  sorrow  that  I  learn  from  a 
letter  received  from  Mrs.  Mason  of  the  mourn- 
ful bereavement  you  have  been  called  upon  to 
suffer  in   the  loss  of  your  dear  wife. 

Such  a  wife  and  such  a  mother  are  not  often 
met  with,  and  far  beyond  her  own  family  circle 
the  many  estimable  qualities  of  heart  and  mind 
of  which  Mrs.  Lucas  was  the  happy  possessor 
endeared  her  to  all  who  had  the  privilege  to 
know  her. 

Being  away  out  on  the  Pacific  Coast  I  have 
only  just  heard  of  the  sad  event,  but  I  assure 
you  I  feel  it  as  a  personal  loss,  and  tender  you 
my  most  heartfelt  condolence  in  this  the  time 
of  your  tribulation. 

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Having  passed  througli  a  similar  ordeal 
myself,  I  can  the  more  readily  enter  into  your 
feelings  and  sympathize  with  you  in  your 
loneliness  and  grief,  and  I  pray  that  you  and 
Miss  Lucas  may  be  sustained  and  consoled  by 
Him  who  alone  can  comfort  the  mourner,  who 
is  too  wise  to  err,  and  too  good  to  be  unkind, 
and  whose  every  act  and  purpose  we  must 
believe  to  be  prompted  by  love. 

Knowing  how  little  human  help  or  sympathy 

can   avail   in   assuaging  sorrow  such  as   yours, 

I  can  only  assure  you  of  my  deep  sympathy,  in 

which  I  am  sure  my  wife  joins,  and  with  our 

very  kind  regards  to  yourself  and    Miss  Lucas 

I  remain, 

Faithfully  yours, 

J.  Herbert  Mason. 


The  Old  Hall,  Stone,  Staffordshire,  England, 

May  26,  1893. 
From  Miss  Annie  Masfield  : 

We  were  indeed  very  sorry  to  hear  of  the  very 

sad  loss  you  have  had,  and  we  all  beg  you  will 

accept  our  very  sincere  sympathy.     We  see  from 

the  card  you  sent  that  Mrs.  Lucas  died  on  the 

eighth  of  this  month,  the  same  day  on  which 

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our  dear   mofher    passed   away,    thirteen    years 
since. 

We  can  quite  understand  how  very  mucli 
Mrs.  Lucas  will  be  missed,  not  only  by  her  own 
family-circle,  but  by  all  who  knew  her.  Hers 
was  a  very  valuable  and  useful  life. 


Philadelphia,  May  30,  1893. 
From  W.  Waterall : 

My  Dear  Old  Friend :  I  have  purposely 
deferred  writing  you  an  expression  of  sympathy 
in  your  bereavement  until  I  could  more 
review  the  closing  of  an  important  chapter  in 
my  own  life's  experience,  and  a  sorrow  that 
must  move  your  life  to  its  innermost  depths. 
The  light  that  has  just  gone  out  has  been 
visible  on  the  pathway  of  my  life's  pilgrimage 
for  thirty-five  years.  My  thoughts  in  tender 
memories  instinctively  turn  towards  those 
earlier  years  of  our  friendship,  when  the  light 
of  that  intelligence  cheered  and  heightened  all 
things  in  "The  home  by  the  Lake  and  the 
Wood."  Especially  when  she,  with  her  gifted 
mother,  gave  pure  and  lofty  tone  to  the 
intellectual  atmosphere  that  ever  pervaded  the 
walks  in  the  dear  old  woods,  and  the  talks  by 

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the  Lake  and  fire-side.  I  shall  always  love 
best  to  think  of  Harriet  as  the  charming 
young  wife  and  mother,  making  that  country 
home  attractive  and  beautiful,  surrounded  by 
her  interesting  young  family,  whose  tender 
minds  she  would  continually  impress  with  her 
own  intense  love  for  the  English  Church. 

Permit  me  in  all  sincerity  to  express  the 
hope  that  both  you  and  your  dear  children 
may  do  all  that  you  can  to  strengthen  and 
perpetuate  the  life  of  "St.  John  in  the 
Wilderness,"  and  thus  make  it  the  most 
appropriate  and  enduring  memorial  of  one  who 
devoted  so  much  loving  energy  in  planting 
and  stimulating  its  early  growth. 

Trusting  that  kind  Heaven  will  deal  gently 

with  you  in  your  two-fold  afiliction, 

I  am,  sincerely  your  friend, 

W.   Waterall. 
Mr.  John  Lucas. 


4400  Spruce  Street,  May  31,  1893. 
From  Mary  E.  Ashman. 

Mr.  Dear  Mr.  Lucas :  The  thoughtful 
remembrance  in  sending  the  Memorial  card  of 
your   dear   wife   is   most   gratefully  appreciated 

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by  both  Mr.  Ashman  and  myself.  I  mentioned 
to  your  daughter  Bessie,  at  the  "  Boys' 
Temporary  Home,"  a  short  time  before 
Mrs.  Lucas  went  to  her  other  home,  how 
sorry  both  Mr.  Ashman  and  I  were  to  hear  of 
her  severe  illness,  and  also  to  say  how  much 
Mr.  Ashman  always  admired  her  as  a  woman, 
her  sprightliness  and  ability.  She  certainly 
was  a  remarkable  woman — one  that  you  will 
miss  every  hour  of  your  life,  and  that  the 
kindest  attention  of  your  children  cannot 
replace. 

Please  accept  our  warmest  sympathy.      I  hope 
your  health  is  improved. 

With  kind  regards,  I  am, 

Very  respectfully, 

Mary  E.  Ashman. 


132  Longacre,  London,  England, 

June  6,  1893. 
From  George  Slatter,  Esq. : 

On  my  return  to  London,  after  a  continental 

trip,   I    found    the   newspaper  announcing  your 

sad  bereavement.     I  look  back  to  remember  the 

short    time    I    was    in    your     company,    when 

Mrs.  Lucas  was  with  you  here.     She  seemed  to 

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have  liigh  intellectual  gifts  and  boundless 
impulses  towards  every  good  work ;  and  who 
shall  number  the  people  whose  lives  have  been 
made  better  and  prospects  brighter  by  her 
influence  and  grand  endeavors.  Think  what 
the  world  would  be  if  a  small  percentage  of 
the  people  we  live  amongst  had  such  a  record. 
Will  you  please  express  to  your  kind  family  my 
most  ample  sympathy  and  condolence. 

(Mr.    Slatter    was   a    personal    friend    of  the 
late  Honorable  John  Welsh.) 


Philadelphia,  June  7,  1893. 
John    Lucas,   Esq. 

Dear  Sir :  The  ladies  of  the  Tenth  Ward 
Charity  Organization  desire  me  to  communi- 
cate to  you  their  sympathy  and  sorrow  for  the 
loss  of  your  beloved  wife,  the  much  honored 
President  of  our  Association. 

She  was  with  us  from  the  beginning,  nearly 
twenty  years  ago. 

She  was  ver>^  highly  esteemed  for  her  unusual 
business  capacity  and  great  generosity,  and  also 
for  her  untiring  willingness  to  assist  in  every 
call  for  aid. 

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Her  loss  to  us  is  a  very  serious  one,  and  we 

heartily  sympatiiize  with  you  in  your  and  our 

bereavement. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

Frances  Cooper, 

Secretary. 


Junior  Athenaeum  Club,  ii6,  Piccadilly,  W., 
London,  England,  June  7,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

It  was  with  feelings  of  deep  distress  I 
received  the  very  sad  news  of  the  death  of 
your  greatly  respected  and   much  loved  wife. 

Allow  me,  in  all  sincerity,  to  offer  you  and 
your  family-circle,  my  heartfelt  sympathies  in 
this  the  day  of  your  great  trouble,  and  to 
hope  and  believe  that  your  loss  is  her  eternal 
gain.  With  every  good  wish,  believe  me, 
Sincerely  yours, 

James  T.  Tumbull. 


Chicago,  June  10,  1893. 
From  Mrs.  E.  W.  Allen : 

World's  Fair  Commission : 
Dear  Mr.   Lucas :    You    have    probably   long 
since  been  informed  that  your  telegram  to  our 


President,  Mrs.  Palmer,  announcing  the  death 
of  your  dear  wife  was  read  in  the  meeting  of 
the  Executive  Committee.  We  were  all  pro- 
foundly impressed  with  a  sense  of  our  great 
loss,  and  sympathize  with  you  most  deeply  in 
your  bereavement,  realizing,  as  we  do,  that  one 
of  the  most  able  and  earnest  members  of  our 
Board  will  be  no  longer  with  us  in  our  work 
on  earth,  and  that  there  must  be  a  great 
blank  in  the  home  from  which  such  an  one 
has  departed. 

In  the  midst  of  our  mourning,  however,  let 
us  remember  that  she  has  gone  to  a  better 
home,  where  there  will  be  no  more  pain,  and 
where  we  may  meet  her  again  with  no 
thought  of  parting.  Though  we  linger  yet  a 
little  longer  she  has  already  heard  the  welcome 
greeting :  "  Well  done,  good  and  faithful 
servant,  enter  thou  into  the  joy  of  thy  Lord." 

Whether  the  gates   of  the  World's  Fair  are 
open  on  the  Lord's  day  or  not,  let  us  rejoice 
that  she  was  permitted  to  utter  her  protest  in 
words  which  were  no  less  firm   than  gentle. 
In  deepest  sympathy, 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Allen. 


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13 13  Somerset  Street,  Philadelphia, 

June   19,    1890. 
From  Robert  Watchorn,  Esq.  : 

This  is  a  very  late  date  on  which  to  express 
one's  sympathy  for  you  in  a  great  bereave- 
ment, but  I  assure  you  that  my  sympathy 
and  sorrow  is  none  the  less  sincere  and  pro- 
found on  that  account,  for  ever  since  I  learned 
that  ]\Irs.  Lucas  was  dead  I  ha\'e  been  con- 
stantly thinking  of  you  and  yours,  and  my 
heart  has  been   very  sad  for  yoii  all. 

Mrs.  Lucas  was  always  very  kind  to  me, 
and  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  work  of  my 
department,  and  I  feel  a  personal  loss  in  her 
departure.  I  have  read  the  poems  of  her 
mother  (book  which  you  kindly  gave  me),  and 
when  I  recall  that  the  authoress  was  born  in 
the  same  grand  old  historic  town  as  I,  it 
furnishes  another  cause  for  my  interest  in  her 
memory. 

West  Jersey  Press,  Camden,  June  20,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas : 

Dear  Sir:  The  world  can  never  know  the 
great  loss  you  have  sustained  in  the  death  of 
your  estimable  wife.     But  it  will  in  a  measure 

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feel  that  in  her  departure  humanity  is  deprived 
of  one  who  lost  no  opportunity  to  show  that 
her  thoughts  were  ever  alert  in  its  behalf. 

Your  truly, 

S.  Chew. 


1520  Spruce  Street,   Philadelphia, 
June  23,  1893. 
My    Dear   Mr.  Lucas : 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  absence  from  the 
city  will  prevent  my  being  present  at  the 
services  to  be  held  in  memory  of  your  dear 
wife    at  Gibbsboro    on   to-morrow. 

I  should  feel  it  a  duty  to  pay  this  last 
tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  one  who 
in  life,  though  afEicted  with  sickness,  was  ever 
extending  a  helping  hand  to  the  needy  and 
sorrowing,  no  matter  how  lowly  their  condi- 
tion, or  what  their  race  or  color. 

I  recall  with  much  satisfaction  the  delightful 
conversation  I  had  with  her  two  years  ago  at 
Atlantic  City,  in  regard  to  the  distressed  and 
downfallen,  and  though  she  has  left  us,  her 
memory  will  be  ever  held  in  loving  remem- 
brance by  her  friends,  and  the  many  she  has 
aided  by  her  benevolence. 


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Trusting  that   you   are  in    the   enjoyment  of 
health,  I  remain, 

Ever  cordially  your  friend, 

Ferdinand  J.  Dreer. 


Chicago,  June  29,   1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas 

My  Dear  Sir :  Your  invitation  to  the  ser- 
vices in  remembrance  of  Mrs.  Lucas  has  just 
been  received.  We  have  a  monument  here  in 
her  memor>^,  you  know,  in  the  beautiful  Silk 
Exhibit.  I  looked  upon  this  as  a  dying 
request,  and  aside  from  the  fact  that  I  believed 
in  it,  I  was  determined  upon  that  account  to 
see  it  through  to  the  successful  termination, 
and  you  will  all  be  glad  to  know  that  it 
is  more  than  a  success, — a  vast  crowd  of 
people  around  it  all  the  time.  Miss  Ford 
tells  me  that  while  watching  the  interest  of 
the  people  in  it,  she  would  give  anything 
to  have  dear  Mrs.  Lucas  there  for  just  five 
minutes  ;  but,  after  all,  maybe  she  was  there — 
who  knows?  We  take  great  pleasure  in  the 
thought. 

I  think  that  you  and  your  daughters  all 
should  come  out  to  the  Fair.      It  is  an  educa- 


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tion  that  you  could  not  afford  to  miss,  and 
the  dear  wife  and  mother  took  such  deep 
interest  in  it  that  you  could  look  upon  it  as 
part  of  her  work.  When  you  come  please 
let  me  know,  as  I  shall  want  to  see  you  all. 
Yours  truly, 

A.  B.  Farquhar, 
Executive  Commissioner. 


Chicago,  June  30,   1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

While  passing  through  the  great  White  City 
I  came  across  the  exhibit  of  the  Women's 
Silk  Culture  Association.  I  stood  still  for  a 
moment,  a  mist  clouded  my  eyes,  and  in  the 
midst  of  the  throbbing  multitude  of  people 
my  tears  fell  fast  and  unchecked.  Before 
me  stood  the  monument — the  silk  flags,  the 
loom,  the  reels,  the  cocoons — while  beside 
me  I  seemed  to  feel  the  spirit  of  the  founder, 
the  promoter,  the  noble,  earnest,  beloved 
Mrs.  John  Lucas.  I  do  not  write  to  open  the 
wounds  (for  they  can  never  close)  but  to  tell 
you  that  the  whole  atmosphere  of  the  exhibit 
is  hers,  hers  only,  and  must  ever  remain 
so.     In  her  memory  I  bought  a  little  souvenir 


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of  the  exhibit,  and  brought  away  several 
copies  of  the  tribute  to  her  noble  worth — one 
of  which  I  enclose,  and  with  kindest  regards 
to  yourself  and  the  members  of  your  family, 
I  am. 

Always  yours,   most  gratefully, 

Joseph  R.  Wilson. 


~    Philadelphia,  July  20,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas  : 

My  Dear  Sir  :  I  regret  that  my  absence  in 
Chicago,  on  the  24th  of  June,  deprived  me 
of  the  opportunity  of  attending  the  Memorial 
services  in  the  "  Little  Church  in  the  Wilder- 
ness," of  which  Mrs.  Lucas  spoke  with  so 
much  interest  and  affection. 

I  have  read  the  interesting  address  on  that 
occasion,  and  it  does  no  more  than  justice  to 
one  of  the  noblest  women  of  the  age ;  and 
her  work  and  example  have  done  much  to 
bring  the  women  of  these  closing  years  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century  to  the  front  in  all  the 
departments  of  active   industry. 

You  and  your  family  have  my  deepest 
sympathy  in  your  ajSliction,  and  it  may  be  a 
pleasant  thought  when  you  remember  that  the 

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world    is   better    because    Mrs.    Harriet    Anne 
Lucas  lived  in  it.      Yours  truly, 

John  W.  Woodside. 

Commissioner. 


All  Saints'  School, 
Germantown,  Philadelphia,  May  9,  1893. 
From  Sister  Mary  Raphael  of  All  Saints : 

When  I  was  told  of  dear  Mrs.  Lucas'  death 
this  morning  my  heart  went  out  to  you  with 
so  great  a  sympathy,  I  felt  I  must  write  and 
let  you  know  how  I  felt  for  you  and  yours. 
I  know,  too,  what  Carrie  would  have  thought 
and  done,  and  I  know  you  will  miss  her 
doubly  at  this  time;  but  you  have  many 
loving  sympathizers  in  your  own  children, 
and  Carrie  will  help  you  in  some  special  way, 
even  now. 

You  must  not  let  this  hea\'y  trial  weigh  you 
down  too  much,  for  your  children  will  have 
more  need  than  ever  of  you  now. 


Philadelphia,  May  11,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas  and  family: 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Board  of  the 
Woman's   Homoeopathic    Association,  held   this 


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day,  tTie  announcement  of  Mrs.  Lucas'  death 
being  made,  tlie  Secretary  was  instructed  to 
send  to  you  an  expression  of  sympathy. 

Mrs.  Lucas  was  with  us  from  the  inception 
of  our  work  as  an  Association,  and  has  always 
shown  the  deepest  interest  in  its  objects. 

Although  for  the  past  year  or  more,  on 
account  of  failing  health  and  manifold  duties, 
she  was  unable  to  take  so  active  a  part  as 
formerly  in  our  affairs.  Even  so  late  as  a  few 
weeks  ago  she  showed  practically  her  interest 
by  collecting  and  sending  to  our  Treasurer 
the  money  from  her  annual  subscribers. 

A  personal  friend  to  many  of  us,  and  to  all 
of  us  dear  through  mutual  interest  and 
cooperation,  she  will  long  be  missed,  and  it 
is  not  a  formal,  but  a  heartfelt  sympathy  that 
we  extend  to  you  in  your  great  bereavement. 
For  the  Board  : 

Fanny  L.  Skinner,  Secretary. 


727  Walnut  Street,  May  11,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas  : 

At  our   meeting  yesterday,  as  you  may  well 
believe,    the   sad    loss   you    have    sustained   in 


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the  death  of  your  excellent  wife  was  upper- 
most in  every  mind.  And  they  endeavored 
feebly  to  express  their  own  sorrow,  and  their 
desire  to  join  with  you,  and  the  members  of 
the  family,  in  their  appreciation  of  the  sad 
bereavement.  The  resolutions  which  I  enclose, 
in  some  degree  express  those  feelings ;  but 
over  and  above  all  that  language  can  express, 
let  each  of  us  say,  that  we  sincerely  condole 
with   you,  and   with  them. 

Sincerely  yours, 

W.  T.  Pratt. 

The  Hayes  Mechanics'  Home, 

Philadelphia,   May  ii,   1893. 

The  Managers  of  the  Hayes  Mechanics^ 
Home  have  to  record  upon  their  minutes 
with  affectionate  remembrance  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Lucas,  wife  of  John  Lucas, 
which  occurred  on  the  morning  of  Monday, 
May  8.    ' 

The  deceased  was  active  in  the  organization 
of  this  Home,  became  one  of  the  Managers 
and  subsequently  Vice-President,  and  during 
the  years  that  have  passed  evinced  the  most 
earnest  interest  in  its  welfare,  in  words,  as  well 
as    by  active   attention     to    its    administration. 

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Endowed  with  admirable  executive  ability  and 
possessing  that  warmth  of  heart  that  caused 
her  to  become  interested  in  many  institutions 
that  were  devoted  to  charity,  or  the  good  of 
humanity  in  any  form,  she  was  yet  able  to 
give  a  portion  of  her  valuable  time  to  the 
advancement  of  this  Home  ;  and  we  record  our 
heartfelt  appreciation  of  those  services  in  its 
cause,  with  our  personal  grief  that  we  shall 
not  again  meet  her  kindly  smile,  and  that  her 
valued  life  is  so  soon  brought  to  a  close. 

In  the  death  of  this  estimable  lady  the  cause 
of  humanity  has  lost  one  of  its  most  efficient 
workers,  this  Institution  a  devoted  advocate, 
and  to  us,  personally,  a  kind  associate  and 
friend. 

W.  T.  Pratt,  Secretary. 


Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
Philadelphia,  May  13,  1893. 
To  Mr.  John  Lucas  and  family  : 

Dear  Sir  :  At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of 
the  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Philadelphia,  held  May  12, 
1893,  it  was  unanimously  Resolved,  that  in  the 
death  of  our  Honorary  Member,  IMrs.  John  Lucas, 

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we  have  lost  a  valued  friend  and  sympathizer. 
While  Mrs.  Lucas'  friends  are  not  confined  to 
one  city  or  one  State,  yet  here  in  the  city  of 
her  home,  where  she  was  best  known,  and 
most  esteemed  for  her  true  benevolence,  we 
realize  a  keener  sense  of  loss,  and  desire  as  a 
"Union"  to  express  to  her  husband  and  family 
our  sincere  sympathy  for  them,  in  this  their 
time  of  bereavement. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Adelaide  V.  Button, 
Corresponding  Secretary. 


May  1 8,  1893. 
The  Teachers  of  the  Chinese  Class  of  the 
Epiphany,  desire  to  testify  to  their  sense  of 
loss  in  the  removal  from  earth  of  their  dear 
friend,  Mrs.  John  Lucas.  They  feel  that  they 
have  lost  one  who  was  much  to  each  of  them 
personally,  and  who  was  a  trusted  leader,  whose 
whole  heart  was  in  the  work  of  the  School. 
Her  presence  itself  was  an  inspiration  to 
faithfulness  in  the  cause  she  loved,  because  it 
was  her  Master's  work. 

Her  co-workers  in  the  class  desire  to  tender 
their   warmest   sympathy    to   the   husband    and 

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family  of  their  dear  friend  in  this  their  sad 
bereavement ;  and  may  the  Lord,  whom  she 
loved,  strengthen  and  help  them  in  their 
aflQiction. 


St.  Peter's  Rectory,  May  19,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Potter  : 

Your  blessed  mother  had  passed  to  her  rest 
sometime  before  I  had  heard  of  it.  Many  times 
have  we  spoken  of  her.  Our  Home  is  indebted 
to  her  for  its  success  during  its  infancy.  Her 
zeal,  liberality  and  courage  were  most  remark- 
able. When  we  were  faint-hearted  she  was  equal 
to  the  emergency,  and  in  her  generous  offerings 
carried  us  over  the  shadow  into  light  again. 
I  have  been  many  times  quickened  by  her 
zeal  and  strengthened  by  her  courage.  Though 
her  loss  to  her  family  must  be  beyond  their 
comprehension,  I  can  but  think  of  her 
blessedness  in  Paradise,  waiting  for  her 
resurrection,  when  she  shall  "  behold  Him  and 
be  satisfied." 

Do,  dear  friends,  retain  your  interest  in  our 
Home.  It  needs  constant  help,  and  do,  for 
your  mother's  sake,  and  in  loving  memory, 
plead  for  our  sustenance. 

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Will  you  give  to  each  member  of  your 
family  my  tenderest  sympathy.  Her  vacancy 
will  be  keenly  felt,  and  I  humbly  pray  our 
great  God  and  Father  to  help  us  all  to  be 
just  as  ready  when  our  "call  cometh." 
Yours  most  sincerely, 

Annie  J.  Rumney. 


Bullitt  Building, 
Philadelphia,  May  20,   1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas  : 

My  Dear  Sir:  Permit  me  as  Secretary  of 
the  Trustees  of  the  Italian  Mission  to  enclose 
to  you  the  original  draft  of  the  Minute  adopted 
by  the  Board  a  few  days  since,  relative  to 
the  great  loss  so  many  have  sustained  in  the 
death  of  Mrs.  John  Lucas,  and  most  especially 
the  organization  I  have  the  honor  to  represent 

Truly, 

John  Marston,  Secretary. 


Minutes  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  Italian  Episcopal  Mission,  May  16, 
1893: 

The  removal  of  one  so  largely  and  actively 
identified      with      works     of     benevolence     as 


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Mrs.  John  Lucas,  may  well  be  regarded  as  a 
public  loss.  Her  labors  of  love  and  sympathy 
are  known  throughout  the  community. 

It  is  rare  indeed  to  find  one  combining 
such  force  of  character  with  a  true  woman's 
amiability,  and  with  such  untiring  activity  and 
zeal  directed  by  a  wise  judgment  and  executive' 
ability.  She  was  one  of  the  earliest  friends 
and  laborers  in  the  Italian  Episcopal  IVIission, 
and  maintained  an  interest  in  it  to  the  last 
moments    of  her  life. 

The    Rector    and    Trustees  have  placed   this 
Minute   on    their    Records    in   grateful    remem- 
brance    of     her     services,     and     request     their 
Secretary   to    convey   to    Mr.   Lucas   their   deep 
sympathy  in  his  bereavement. 
Rev.   M.  Zara,  Rector. 
John    E.   Baird,     Chairman    of    Trustees. 
John  P.  Rhoads,  Treasurer. 
Attest :    John  Marston,  Secretary. 


Atlantic  City,  May  31,   1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas : 

Dear  Sir:  I  am  very  sony  you  loss  the 
wise  ladie,  Mrs.  Lucas,  she  stay  with  God 
forever.       When   she   live   that   time   and   said, 

8t 


we  have  to  be  end,  we  will  stay  with  God 
forever.  And  hope  you  far  away  off  not  be 
weary  and  take  good  care  yourself,  and  look 
back  your  children  and  grand  children  and 
you  have  the  best  in  the  world,  but  we  hope 
her  stay  on  this  world  longer,  and  do  more 
good  for  our  Chinaman.  When  I  talk  to  my 
friends  who  know  her,  they  be  sad  when  she 
gone,  so  our  friend  member  her  forever  when 
she  is  live  every  year  the  scholars  remember 
the  Lake  Side  Park.  Now  I  do  not  know 
how  the  Park  is  to  be.  So  who  do  good  the 
name  is  fame. 

Yours  sincerely, 
Joe  James, 

Wing,  Wah,  Lee  &  Co. 


Oregon  World's  Fair  Commission, 

Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  May  23,  1893. 
Dear  Mr.  Lucas : 

I  have  just  learned  of  the  death  of  your  dear 
wife.  It  gave  me  great  sorrow  to  my  heart. 
I  thought  when  I  met  her  in  the  Fall  she 
wouldn't  recover,  but  did  not  think  that  it 
would  be  so  soon  as  this. 

8a 


I  never  met  any  person  with  such  a  short 
acquaintance  that  has  made  such  an  impression 
on  me  as  Mrs.  Lucas.  I  know  you  will  miss 
her  more  than  tongue  can  tell.  I  miss  her  so 
much  in  the  convention;  but  I  must  leave  it  to 
Him  that  doeth  all  things  well.  I  am  afraid 
to  write  any  more,  as  words  only  cut  the  wound 
deeper. 

I  remain,  sincerely  yours, 

Mrs.  Mary  Payton, 

Lady  Manager. 


St.  George's  Society, 
Washington,  May  24,  1893. 
John  Lucas,  Esq.  : 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  A  recent  vote  of 
this  society  has  placed  upon  me  the  duty 
of  communicating  to  you  the  sympathy  felt  by 
our  members  for  you  and  your  household  at 
the  calling  away  of  the  admirable  wife  and 
mother,  that  some  of  us  had  opportunity  to 
know  and  esteem  in  life,  and  whose  death  we 
lament  with  you. 

It   is   a  gratification    to    us    to    believe   that 
the   many  expressions   of   those  who   feel  with 

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you  and  for  you  may  make  your  bereavement 
a  little  tlie  easier  to  bear. 
I  am,  dear  sir  and  brother, 

Very  sincerely  yours, 
John  H.  Howlett, 

President  of  the  Society. 
Attest:  Chas.  F.  Benjamin,  Secretary. 


Philadelphia,  May  23,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas  : 

Dear  Sir :  The  ladies  of  the  Board  of  Managers 

of  the    "  House   of   Rest,"   Germantown,   desire 

me  to  convey  to  you  and  your  bereaved   family 

their  heartfelt  sympathy.     We  feel  that  we  have 

lost  a  noble  and  sympathetic  friends-one  whose 

life  was  spent  for  others. 

Very  sincerely, 

Mrs.  James  A.  Bennett 

Rebecca  F.  Bennett,  Secretary. 


St.  Jude's  Rector}^,  816  Franklin  Street, 

June  I,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas: 

At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Managers 

■of  the  House  of  Rest  I  was  instructed  to  draw 


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up  a  minute  in  regard  to  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Lucas,  and  forward  the  same  to  you.  With 
deep  sympathy,  believe  me, 

Very  truly  yours, 

J.  R.  Moses. 


Philadelphia,  June  i,  1893. 

Extract  from  minutes  of  Board  of  Managers 
of  the  House  of  Rest  for  the  Aged.  The 
Secretary  was  instructed  to  prepare  a  minute 
in  regard  to  the  death  of  Mrs.  Lucas.  This 
minute  to  be  sent  to  the  family  and  to  be  put 
upon  the  minutes. 

"This  Board  desires  to  express  its  deep 
sense  of  loss  in  the  removal  from  among  us 
of  Mrs.  John  Lucas.  From  the  beginning  of 
the  work,  until  the  time  when  ill  health 
compelled  her  to  resign  the  Presidency  of  the 
Board  of  Women  Managers,  her  indefatigable 
energy  contributed  in  a  great  measure  to  the 
success  of  the  undertaking.  With  deep  appre- 
ciation of  her  faithful  and  efficient  service, 
the  Board  desires  to  express  its  hearty  sympathy 
with  her  bereaved  family." 

J.  R.  Moses,  Secretary. 


95. 


Memorial  Notices  of  the  Press. 


Many  generous  and  instructive  notices  of  the 
life  and  services  of  Mrs.  Lucas  were  given  in 
the  public  journals  of  this  city,  New  Jersey  and 
New  York,  on  the  occasion  of  her  death. 

It  would  be  a  grateful  task  to  transcribe 
these  notices  in  this  connection  if  space  per- 
mitted. Their  strong  expressions  of  personal 
regard  for  her  singular  devotion  to  works  of 
mercy,  were  the  most  prominent  feature,  and 
next  the  ample  statements  made  as  to  her 
practical  connection  with  so  many  institutions. 
But  as  the  leading  events  of  her  practical  life 
are  given  in  the  second  portion,  or  historical 
part  of  this  Memoir,  it  is  not  necessary  to 
repeat  them  here. 

Mr.  Lucas  desires  to  make  grateful  acknowl- 
edgment of  these  Memorial  notices.  The  list 
is  so  large  that  it  is  scarcely  practicable  to 
even  cite  them  more  definitely   in   this    place. 

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Newsboys'  Home, 
251  South  Sixtli  Street,  June  6,  1893. 
Mr.  John  Lucas : 

Dear  Sir:  At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Board, 
on  June  2,  the  following  Resolutions  were 
adopted : 

The  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Temporary 
Home  for  Young  Men  and  Boys  have  learned 
with  profound  sorrow  of  the  death  of  their 
honored  President,  Mrs.  John  Lucas,  which 
occurred  on  Monday,  May  8.  In  view  of  this 
sad  bereavement  it  is  fitting  and  proper  that 
this  Board  should  give  expression  to  the  sense 
of  heartfelt  sorrow  which  this  dispensation  of 
Divine  Providence  has  occasioned. 

Resolved,  That  the  death  of  Mrs.  Lucas,  our 
President,  has  caused  a  vacancy  which  we 
deeply  mourn,  and  which  has  filled  our  hearts 
with  grief  and  sadness. 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  testify  to  the  rare 
intelligence,  wise  counsel  and  sincere  devotion 
of  Mrs.  Lucas  to  the  cause  of  the  IVIaster, 
during  the  many  years  of  her  consecrated  life. 
Resolved,  That  the  Church  of  Christ,  the 
Christian  community,  and  the  world  at  large, 
have  sustained  an  irreparable  loss  in  her  transi- 

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tion  from  earth  to  heaven,  and  from  the  cross 
to  the  crown. 

Resolved,  That  we  deeply  sympathize  with 
her  honored  husband,  and  sons,  and  daughters 
in  this  hour  of  their  severe  affliction,  with  the 
earnest  prayer  that  their  grief-stricken  hearts 
may  find  comfort  and  consolation  in  the  "God 
of  all  comfort"  in  this  time  of  their  sad 
bereavement. 

Resolved,  That  this  record  be  entered  on 
our  minutes,  and  that  a  copy  be  transmitted 
to  the  afflicted  family. 

Yours  very  truly, 

Russel  T.  Boswell, 

Secretary. 


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History  of  the  Principal   Services    of 
Mrs.  Lucas  in  Public  Affairs. 


It  is  essential  to  a  proper  memorial  to 
the  memory  of  Mrs.  Lucas  to  review  witH 
some  definiteness  her  successful  efforts  to 
advance  the  interests  and  improve  the 
condition  of  many  classes.  Her  work  was 
not  all  that  of  simple  benevolence  in  the 
ordinary  sense,  so  much  as  it  was  of 
deliberate  and  careful  plans,  far-reaching 
in  their  influence,  and  in  most  cases  alike 
beneficial  to  the  whole  people.  It  was 
this  breadth  of  character,  joined  with  her 

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singular  persistence  and  untiring  faith- 
fulness, that  constituted  her  chief 
distinction. 

I  regret  that  it  is  not  possible  to  make 
this  review  of  her  services  complete  and 
exhaustive  as  it  should  be  made.  Much 
has  been  incidentally  stated  on  these  points 
by  the  writers  of  the  letters  of  condolence 
here  printed ;  but  there  should  be  some  one 
acquainted  with  the  exact  details  of  her 
works  of  strict  benevolence,  as  well  as  one 
to  do  the  work  I  here  attempt  of  citing 
her  more  general  efforts  to  influence  public 
affairs.  Having  at  her  command  a  private 
fund  with  which  to  assist  worthy  objects, 
making  no  mention  of  what  she  did  to 
others — not  even  to  members  of  her  own 
family — all  that  she  did  was  so  unobtrusive 
and  so  absolutely  without  the  usual 
blazoning  of   publicity,  that  it  is   difficult 

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to  trace    all  of   her  acts    or  to   get  back 
to  the  beginning  in  each  case. 

The  following  sketch  will  therefore  be  a 
collection  of  citations  and  of  incidents  such 
as  have  come  under  my  immediate  notice, 
rather  than  an  assumption  to  make  a  com- 
plete history. 

And  I  may  also  say  that  a  greater 
purpose  entertained  in  the  present  case 
is  to  relieve  all  her  recent  work  of  any 
doubt  as  to  its  practical  success,  or  as  to  the 
appreciation  in  which  it  was  held  by  her 
immediate  associates.  It  is  too  often  the  case 
that  what  is  said  of  a  person  intending  a 
public  service  is,  that  while  it  was  well  in- 
tended, it  required  some  other  hand  to  make 
it  practically  successful.  Such  was  not  the 
case  with  the  works  undertaken  by  her. 

It  may  be  said  generally  that  these 
active    works     have     occupied     somewhat 

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more  than  twenty  years,  in  a  position 
of  mucH  prominence.  Undoubtedly  they 
began  earlier,  and  in  the  singularly 
interesting  account  which  I  find  in  her 
own  handwriting  of  the  founding  of  the 
church  at  Gibbsboro,  an  admirable 
illustration  is  given  of  her  persistence 
in  purpose  often  kept  in  design  some 
years  before  the  complete  execution.  In 
this  case  she  says  that  in  1856,  the  first 
of  her  residence  at  Gibbsboro,  active 
efforts  were  undertaken  to  build  up  a 
social  and  religious  influence,  and  while 
these  were  not  all  she  desired,  or  rather 
all  that  they  should  be,  for  almost  twenty 
years  afterward  they  were  still  prosecuted 
in  good  faith  and  were  really  of  much 
service.  This  was  an  alternative  residence 
only,  however,  her  permanent  residence 
being   in   Philadelphia,  and   all   her   more 

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important  works  were  undertaken  and 
conducted  in  this  city.  The  history  of 
the  founding  of  the  Gibbsboro  Church 
is  of  so  much  interest,  however,  that  her 
manuscript  is  here  printed  in    full. 

With  the  various  societies  organized 
in  part  by  her,  for  benevolent  purposes, 
she  was  always  in  active  co-operation, 
was  not  merely  a  member  and  contributor, 
but    most   active   in    suggesting   and    the 

most  persistent  in  enforcing  the  practical 
form  to  all  these  efforts.  This  was 
especially  true  of  those  which  are  the 
most  difficult  in  themselves,  the  charities 
which  were  new  and  without  the 
experience  of  routine  which  attaches  to 
so  many.  In  this  respect,  also,  some 
most  striking  testimonials  are  afforded 
in  the  letters  of  condolence  before  given. 
The  Chinese  benevolent   efforts,    and  that 

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with  tlie  Italians  also,  are  illustrations  of 
the  vigor  and  success  of  movements  in 
which  she  had  the  leading  place.  They 
were  all  intended  to  be  instructive  and 
beneficial  in  the  most  direct  degree,  and 
never  represented  any  sectarian  feeling, 
or  any  propagandism  of  the  views  of  one 
church  over  another.  When  efforts  such 
as  hers  are  so  openly  and  unselfishly 
made,  all  these  limits  and  distinctions 
break  down  of  themselves. 

Perhaps  her  more  active  career,  from 
about  1872  to  the  present  year,  will 
represent  the  more  conspicuous  of  her 
efforts  and  services.  During  this  period 
she  was  connected  with  about  twenty 
societies  and  organizations,  in  several  of 
which  she  took  the  leading  part.  With 
enough,  as  it  is  usually  supposed,  of 
occupations    and    burdens    in    her   family 

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relations,  there  was  still  no  time  in  whicli 
she  hesitated  or  declined  to  act  when  she 
consistently  could  for  the  public.  She 
did  so  as  unconsciously  and  without 
effort,  as  might  be  supposed  if  she  had 
no   other  occupation   or  purpose  whatever. 

It  must  be  again  said  that  it  is  impos- 
sible to  arrange  the  evidences  of  this 
work  in  strict  chronological  order,  or  to 
give  the  whole  history  connected  with  it 
as  it  should  be  given.  The  best  will  be 
done,  however,  which  is  practicable  with 
the  papers   at  hand. 

Among  the  earliest  of  the  efforts  of 
Mrs.  Lucas,  in  acts  of  what  might  be 
called  permanent  benevolence,  was  an 
effort  for  the  establishment  of  a  Retreat 
for  Aged  Divines  of  the  Church.  The 
matter  is  alluded  to  in  a  letter  to 
Mrs.   Lucas,    of    February   6,    1879,   from 

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tlie  Hon.  Jolin  Welsli,  then  Minister  of 
the  United  States  at  London.  The  letter 
of  Mr.  Welsh  is  before  me,  acknowledg- 
ing the  receipt  of  Mrs.  Lncas'  proposition, 
and  in  this  letter  Mr.  Welsh  discusses 
the  principles  on  which  such  a  retreat,  or 
provision  rather,  for  the  maintenance  of 
such  persons,  should  be  founded.  Not 
having  Mrs.  Lucas'  letter,  it  can  only  be 
said  that  she  voluntarily  took  the  lead 
in  making  such  provision,  whether  by  a 
distinct  residence  or  by  an  arrangement 
providing  for  their  residence  in  private 
families.  It  appears  that  Mrs.  Lucas 
selected  the  location.  Mr.  Welsh  closes 
his  letter  with  the  statement  that  he 
trusts  that  the  zeal  of  those  who  have 
taken  the  subject  in  hand  will  be  equal 
to   a  successful   accomplishment. 


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As  a  prominent  member  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church,  Mrs.  Lucas  participated  in 
most  of  the  conspicuous  charities  or 
institutions  which  Bishop  Stevens  was  so 
prominent  in  founding.  The  "House  of 
Rest  for  the  Aged,"  in  Germantown,  is 
one  of  several  institutions  which  passed 
resolutions  of  sympathy  and  sent  their 
condolence  to   Mr.  Lucas  and    family. 

Among  the  many  benevolent  institu- 
tions in  which  she  took  an  active  part 
may  be  named  the  Tenth  Ward  Charity 
Organization,  established  over  twenty 
years  ago,  the  Hayes  Mechanics' 
Home,  the  Woman's  Homoeopathic 
Association,  the  Italian  Episcopal  Mis- 
sion, the  Chinese  Mission,  the  House  of 
Rest  for  the  Aged  Women  of  the  Epis- 
copal Church,  of  which  she  was  the  first 
President  of  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers, 


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in  regard  to  which  the  following  striking 
tribute  of  respect  is  furnished  by- 
Mrs.  Rumney: 

"  Our  Home  is  indebted  to  her  for  its 
success  during  its  infancy.  Her  zeal, 
liberality  and  courage  were  most  remark- 
able. When  we  were  faint-hearted,  she 
was  equal  to  the  emergency,  and  in  her 
generous  offerings  carried  us  over  the 
shadow  into  light  again." 

These  were  but  a  few  of  the  institu- 
tions which  she  made  much  more  than 
charity,  making  them,  rather,  active  and 
creative  agencies  for  the  permanent 
benefit  of  all  connected  with  them.  The 
tributes  of  respect  and  the  acknowledg- 
ment of  services  will  in  many  cases  be 
found  in  the  letters  of  condolence  here 
printed.  It  would  be  an  appropriate 
service  on  the  part  of  some  one  more 
directly    connected    with    these   establish- 

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ments  tlian  the  writer  of  this  paper,  to 
state  in  full  detail  the  actual  work  done 
in  each  case  by  her,  and  the  full  list  of 
the   charities  benefited. 

We  will  now  revert  to  another  class 
of  institutions  and  of  services  in  which 
Mrs.  Lucas  has  in  all  cases  been  promi- 
nent and  in  some  of  which  she  has  had 
almost  the  leading  place.  These  are  the 
several  exhibitions  of  art  and  industry 
which  have  had  so  prominent  a  place 
for  thirty  years  past.  She  took  an  active 
part  and  gave  effective  service  in  the 
work  of  the  Centennial  Exhibition  of 
1876,  although  as  the  organizations  then 
existing  did  not  recognize  or  distinguish 
women's  departments  as  such,  her  name 
does  not  appear  on  any  Board  of 
Managers,  Her  activity  and  influence, 
however,  are  gratefully  remembered. 

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Soon  after  this  came  tlie  Frencli 
Bxliibition  of  1878,  wHcli  enlisted  a 
good  deal  of  interest  on  the  part  of 
Americans.  Next  in  succession  was  the 
Exhibition  at  Atlanta,  in  1880-1,  which 
being  an  exhibit  of  cotton  and  other 
fibres  elicited  a  good  deal  of  attention 
from  the  ladies  of  the  Association,  then 
newly  organized  for  the  promotion  of  Silk 
Culture  and  silk  manufacture  within  the 
United  States.  Mrs.  Lucas  was  very 
active  in  the  formation  of  this  Association, 
and  in  the  production  of  silk  fabrics,  then 
first  becoming  prominent  in  the  United 
States.  Mrs.  Lucas  threw  her  whole  spirit 
into  this  effort  to  advance  silk  culture  and 
to  produce  silk  fabrics  during  the  year 
1880,  and  she  had  the  aid  of  many 
prominent  citizens :  Governor  Pollock, 
Hon.  Thomas  H.  Dudley,  Hon.  John  W. 


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Forney,  and  others;  also  Governor  Hoyt, 
and  Hon.  Thomas  B.  Edge,  of  the  State 
Agricultural  Department.  So  rapid  was 
the  advancement  of  this  industry,  that 
it  was  proposed  to  make  it  prominent 
in  the  Atlanta  Exhibition,  and  a  remark- 
ably conspicuous  and  successful  exhibit 
of  the  products  of  this  industry  was  made 
there  in  the  later  months  of  1880 
and  early  in  1881.  Very  active  work 
was  done  by  the  Association  during  the 
summer  of  1880,  and  several  meetings 
were  held,  at  which  addresses  were  made, 
recognizing,  on  the  part  of  prominent 
citizens,  public  officers  and  manufacturers, 
the  value  of  their  efforts.  Mr.  William 
A.  Griswold,  of  the  Darby  Mills,  aided 
them  very  much,  and  introduced  silk 
industry  on  a  large  scale  in  these  mills, 
as    did   also   Hensel    &    Colladay,    whose 


lOI 


mills  were  in  Philadelpliia.  A  large 
number  of  mills  in  Philadelphia  took  up 
one  or  another  form  of  silk  industry  about 
this  time,  and  their  present  product  of  silk 
fabrics  amounts  to  many  millions  of 
dollars  annually. 

To  show  how  well  the  hopes  of  Mrs. 
Lucas  were  justified  as  to  founding  the 
silk  industry  on  an  extensive  scale  here, 
I  may  anticipate  by  saying  that  now  there 
are  one  hundred  and  twenty  silk  mills 
in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  about  seventy 
of  which  are  in  Philadelphia,  and  the 
product  of  these  mills  amounts  to  nearly 
$70,000,000  annually.  While  the  culti- 
vation of  the  raw  silk  has  not  been  so  far 
successful  as  to  compete  with  the  immense 
imports  of  cheap  raw  silk  from  India  and 
China,  yet  the  silk  goods  themselves  are 
now     made     here     in     more     than     twice 


102 


tlie  quantity  of  tlie  present  importation, 
while  twenty-five  years  ago  the  wHole 
requirement  of  tlie  country  was  imported. 

Exhibits  of  silk  fabrics,  raw  silk,  cocoons 
and  reeling  processes  were  made  at  several 
of  the  county  fairs  in  1880  and  1883. 
While  this  publicity  given  to  the  matter 
invited  the  location  of  silk  mills  in  these 
interior  towns,  it  is  to  be  regretted  that 
but  little  raw  silk  is  as  yet  grown  in 
the  State.  All  of  the  circumstances  of 
the  case  are  favorable  to  it  in  the 
highest   degree   however. 

The  report  prepared  for  the  New  Orleans 
Exhibition,  credits  the  Woman's  Silk 
Culture  Association  with  having  "  conducted 
an  important  movement  in  silk  growing, 
which  for  three  years  past  has  given  an 
impetus  to  the  growing  of  silk  as  a 
domestic  resource  for  families  in  all  parts 


103 


of  the  United  States,  and  lias  distributed 
trees,  eggs  and  books  of  instruction, 
awarding  premiums  annually  for  cocoons, 
and  reeling  tbe  silk  from  the  cocoons 
received.  From  tbis  reeled  silk,  fine 
articles  of  brocade,  flag  silks,  ribbons,  etc., 
bave  been  made  for  tbe  Association,  and 
bave  attracted  great  attention  wben 
publicly  sbown."  This  statement,  written 
in  December,  1884,  is  a  compact,  but  still 
inadequate  expression  of  tbe  work  then 
accomplished  by  the  Association. 


,104 


Appropriations  by  Congress. 


Various  efforts  were  made  by  Mrs.  Lucas 
and  lier  friends  to  obtain  tbe  aid  of  the 
general  government  in  tbeir  work  of 
promoting  silk  industry.  Some  aid  was 
afforded  in  tbe  year  1885,  by  tbe 
Department  of  Agriculture,  some  monthly 
appropriations  being  given  to  aid  in  silk 
reeling.  In  1886,  however,  after  direct 
efforts  made  personally  by  Mrs.  Lucas  to 
tbe  Senate  and  House  Committees,  an 
appropriation  of  $5,000  was  got,  which 
was  drawn  on  July  30,   1886. 

It  was  distinctly  placed  in  the  hands 
of  the  Silk  Culture  Association,  but  with 

105 


the  requirement  to  report  upon  the 
subject  to  the  Department  of  Agriculture; 
the  first  report  so  made,  being  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1887.  In  1887 
Congress  made  a  second  appropriation  of 
$5,000,  under  the  same  conditions,  which 
was  drawn  on  July  19  of  that  year.  The 
expenditure  of  this  sum  was  reported 
to  the  Department  as  for  the  fiscal 
year   ending  June  30,  1888. 

A  third  appropriation  was  made,  also 
of  $5,000,  which  was  drawn  October  6, 
1888.  Report  upon  this  expenditure  was 
made  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1889. 
Some  conditions  were  attached  to  this 
appropriation,  requiring  a  free  distribution 
of  trees  and  some  specific  aid  to  silk 
growers,  but  the  expenditure  in  all  these 
cases  was  chiefly  in  the  payment  of  cocoons 
cultivated   by    experimental    growers.       In 

io6 


this  last  year  a  considerable  sum  was 
also  expended  in  weaving  dress  and  flag 
silks  into  fabrics  of  the   highest   quality. 

A  fourth  appropriation  of  $5,000  was 
made  by  Congress  in  1889,  which  was 
drawn  upon  October  9  of  that  year.  A 
report  upon  the  expenditure  of  this  sum 
was  made  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
June    30,  1890. 

At  the  end  of  this  year,  or  on  July  i, 
1890,  about  $1,000  remained  of  the 
appropriation,  and  no  further  appropriation 
being  made,  it  became  necessary  to  limit 
the  expenditure  for  trees  and  the  free 
distribution  of  articles  and  directions  in 
aid  of  silk  culture.  With  its  large 
stock  of  materials,  however,  the  great 
confidence  of  the  public  in  its  activity  and 
efficiency  continued  to  fully  the  end  of 
a   second    fiscal   year,    or    to    July,    1892. 

107 


Thus  the  direct  aid  of  the  government 
was  carried  over  a  period  of  about  six 
years,  with  a  result  of  carrying  on  an 
effective  encouragement  to  this  great 
national  industry,  at  less  cost  than  could 
have  been  supposed  possible.  As  only 
the  immediate  employes  of  the  Association 
received  salaries,  the  expenditure  for  such 
purposes  as  usually  consume  public 
appropriations  was  very  small  indeed. 
It  may  safely  be  said  that  no  such 
inexpensive  and  effective  public  service 
has  been  rendered  by  any  ofi&cial  agency, 
either  at  Washington  or  elsewhere. 

In  recognition  of  the  official  relations 
which  they  desired  to  establish,  but  wholly 
from  their  own  resources  and  before  any 
appropriations  were  made,  and  in 
vindication  of  the  effectiveness  of  their 
work,     the     ladies     of     this      Association 

xo8 


prepared  sets  of  magnificent  flags,  made 
of  silk  grown  in  the  United  States,  reeled 
in  their  own  rooms  in  PhiladelpHia,  and 
woven  in  our  own  silk  mills.  These  flags 
were  presented  on  January  23,  1885,  one 
to  the  Senate  and  one  to  the  House  of 
Representatives  at  Washington,  the 
occasion  being  made  one  of  the  most 
imposing  ceremonial,  and  the  speeches  of 
Senators  Beck,  Dawes,  and  Morgan,  and 
of  Representative  Kelly  of  the  House, 
being  in  the  highest  degree  appreciative. 
These  flags  were  ten  by  seven  feet  in  size, 
elaborately  furnished  and  mounted. 
Resolutions  of  acceptance  were  adopted, 
both  by  the  Senate  and  House,  and  are 
entered  at  length  upon  the  official 
records  of  the  Forty-eighth   Congress. 

Just   previous     to   this    presentation,  or 
on    January     22,    1885,     the     Association 

109 


presented  to  tHe  Governor  and  Legisla- 
ture of  Pennsylvania  a  stand  of  two 
very  large  National  and  State  flags, 
made  of  American  silk,  reeled,  dyed  and 
woven  in  the  City  of  PHiladelpliia,  which 
flags  were  received  by  Governor  Pattison 
and  a  joint  Committee  of  the  Senate  and 
House,  met  in  the  Executive  Chamber 
at  Harrisburg.  A  full  report  of  this 
presentation  was  made  by  the  Joint 
Legislative  Committee,  on  February  26, 
1885,  and  duly  recorded  in  the  proceedings 
of  the  Legislature. 

Other  presentations  of  flags  were  made 
about  this  time,  one  through  Mrs.  E.  C. 
Long,  of  Florida,  to  the  people  of  that 
State,  on  January  6,  1885,  which  were 
received  by  Governor  Perry  of  that  State ; 
and  it  may  also  be  said  that  handsome 
flags     made     by     the     Association     were 


no 


presented    to    tlie    Atlanta    Bxliibition   of 

1881. 

A  scliedule  is  given  in  the  Tentli 
Annual  Report  of  the  Association,  of 
forty-nine  distinct  exhibits  of  silk  cocoons, 
reeling,  and  other  processes,  as  well  as 
finished  fabrics  of  silk  made  by  them  in 
the  different  States  and  cities  of  the  United 
States  chiefly,  although  one  was  in  Mexico, 
and  three  were  in  England.  This 
remarkable  schedule  can  be  found  at 
page   21  of  the  Tenth  Annual  Report. 

A  final  occasion  on  which  an  effective 
and  influential  display  was  made  occurred 
at  the  meeting  of  the  Pan  American 
Congress,  at  Washington,  in  April, 
1890.  A  flag  of  American  silk,  spun, 
woven  and  finished  in  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  was  presented  to  each 
delegation     from     the    several    States    of 


III 


Soutii     America     and     Central     America, 

seventeen  in  number.     The  replies  of  the 

several  delegations   were  appreciative  and 

patriotic   in   the   highest  degree. 

The  design  in  each  of  these  cases  is  to 

be     credited     to     Mrs.     Lucas,     and     her 

presentation      addresses      were      full      of 

suggestion   to   the   people   of    the    several 

American  States.     In  closing  her  address 

to   these  South  American  delegations,  she 

said : 

"  Gentlemen,  bear  with  you  these 
emblems  of  the  success  of  our  nation, 
place  them  in  your  Legislative  halls, 
and  ever  regard  them  as  tokens  of  one 
hundred  years  of  National  prosperity  of 
this  Government,  of  the  people,  for  the 
people,  and  by  the  people,  and  the 
devotion  of  a  little  band  of  women  to 
the  advancement  of  home  production  and 
industrial  education." 


113 


National  Exhibitions. 


On  the  general  subject  of  the  form  in 
which  exhibits  are  now  made  of  social 
and  industrial  progress,  it  is  but  just 
to  say  that  to  Mrs.  Lucas  almost 
exclusive  credit  is  due  for  the  prominence 
now  held  by  women's  work. 

The  contrast  between  the  exhibits  made 
at  the  Centennial,  in  1876,  with  the  more 
complete  social  and  industrial  organization 
of  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago,  illustrates 
the  statement  here  made.  In  the  present 
exhibition  there  is  a  recognized  depart- 
ment  of   woman's   work,  almost   equal   in 

113 


importance  to  any  other.  It  is  recognized 
everywhere  as  the  representative  feature 
of  the  exhibition,  the  distinctive  feature 
which  elevates  it,  and  broadens  its  scope, 
making  it  superior  as  an  era  of  human 
progress  to  any  that  has  preceded  it. 
From  the  outset  of  the  plans  and 
organizations  designed  to  build  up  the 
exhibit  as  a  whole,  this  distinctive  feature 
was  introduced  and  enforced  chiefly  by 
Mrs.  Lucas.  It  is  scarcely  too  much  to 
say,  that  it  should  be  credited  to  her 
genius  and  should  be  made  a  monument 
to   her   memory. 

In  Pennsylvania,  particularly,  a  system 
of  organization  of  unusual  extent  and 
completeness  was  planned  by  her  at  the 
outset,  in  the  formation  of  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  Societies  in  each  county.  The 
collections      made      by      these      Societies 

114 


constitute  a  striking  feature  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Exhibit  as  a  whole;  and 
almost  up  to  the  last  hour  of  her  life 
Mrs.  Lucas  kept  in  communication  with 
them — her  latest  circular  of  instruction 
and  encouragement  having  been  issued 
on  February  lo,  1893.  No  one  assumed 
to  change  or  to  dispense  with  any  portion 
of  the  efforts  originally  planned  by  her, 
and  all  now  unite  in  accrediting  her  with 
the  organizing  power  which  has  made  the 
Woman's  Department  as  a  whole  what 
it   now   is. 

In  the  group  of  buildings  erected  at 
Chicago  a  very  large  structure,  200  by 
400  feet  in  extent,  and  covering  i  8-10 
acres  of  ground,  is  devoted  wholly  to 
Woman's  Work.  A  Board  of  Lady 
Managers  was  created  by  the  concurrent 
action    of    Congress    and    the    Columbian 

"5 


Commission,  to  take  entire  charge  of  tlie 
interests  of  women  at  tlie  Exposition. 
This  Board  has  made  a  most  remarkable 
exhibit,  in  which  educational,  artistic  and 
industrial  features  are  almost  equally- 
prominent.  They  have  vindicated  the 
claim  which  American  ladies  have  here 
first  made,  that  women  do  possess  creative 
minds,  and  do  constitute  the  most 
important  factors  in  the  arts  of  peace  and 
progress  as  well  as  in  merely  charitable 
and  beneficent  institutions.  They  have 
here  shown  that  they  can  create  new 
surroundings,  new  lines  of  productive 
work  in  the  most  positive  sense,  and  new 
methods  of  labor  as  well  as  new  rewards 
for   labor. 

The  expenditure  by  the  Directors  of 
$200,000  in  the  erection  of  this  building 
has     been     the     most     instructive     and 

116 


significant  of  the  results  at  Chicago. 
In  tlie  Pennsylvania  Book  of  Instruction 
and  Exhibit  this  feature  is  given  great 
prominence,  and  an  admirable  statement 
of  the  County  Societies  of  Pennsylvania, 
as  well  as  of  the  entire  plan  of  collecting 
and  exhibiting  there,  is  given  over  the 
signature  of  Mrs.  Lucas,  as  she  was  really 
more  than  any  one  else  the  author  of  the 
entire  system.  This  portion  of  the  volume, 
from  page  167  to  187,  is  worthy  to  be 
reprinted  and  distributed  as  the  most 
expressive  and  definite  illustration  of  the 
gain  in  woman's  position,  as  well  as  the 
elevation  of  present  influences  over  those 
prevailing  even  so  recently  as  the 
Centennial  of   1876. 

It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  the 
Act  of  Congress  creating  the  National 
Commission    for    conducting    the  World's 

117 


Columbian  Exposition  was  passed  April 
25,  1890,  and  that  this  Act  gave  almost 
equal  prominence  as  members  and  man- 
agers of  said  Commission  to  the  Board 
of  Lady  Managers,  then  created.  This 
National  Board  of  Lady  Managers  con- 
sisted of  two  from  each  State,  and  it  was 
incumbent  on  the  Board  so  created  to 
outline,  as  far  as  possible,  the  work  falling 
to  them  to  do.  In  this  work  Mrs.  Lucas 
and  her  alternate,  Miss  McCandless,  were 
engaged  for  more  than  a  year  before  the 
passage  of  the  Act  of  Pennsylvania 
creating  a  State  Commission,  which  was 
signed  June  22,  1891.  By  Section  5  of 
this  Act,  ''The  Board  of  World's  Fair 
Managers  are  hereby  empowered  to  adopt 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  admit 
the  World's  Columbian  Commissioners 
and  the  members  of    the  Board  of    Lady 

118 


Managers  of  the  World's  Columbian 
Commission  from  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, or  their  respective  alternates,  to 
be  ex-officio  members  of  the  Board  of 
World's  Fair  Managers  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania." 

It  appears,  therefore,  that  Mrs.  Lucas' 
powers  continued  to  be  primarily  those 
given  by  the  Act  of  Congress,  and  in 
accepting  the  work  of  the  State  Commis- 
sion she  did  not  in  any  way  withdraw 
from  the  larger  field  to  which  she  was 
originally  appointed. 

It  is,  however,  quite  apparent  that  no 
other  State  made  such  provision  as  was 
here  made  for  signalizing  the  Woman's 
Work  of  Pennsylvania.  Immediately  after 
her  appointment  under  the  Pennsylvania 
statutes  she  began  the  systematic  work 
intended   to  be    executed    by   the    several 

119 


County  Committees  of  Women.  But  slie 
gave  to  the  whole  of  it  the  most  vigorous 
personal  attention,  removing  difficulties 
and  perfecting  all  the  details  until  it 
came  to  be  complete  in  the  form  now 
published  at  Harrisburg. 

The  title  of  this  report  is  very  expres- 
sive in  itself  of  the  scope  and  broad 
purposes  of  the  work  done  by  the  State 
Committee  of  Woman's  Work.  It  is — "  A 
Condensed  Statement  of  the  Work  done 
by  Women,  in  Instruction,  Reform, 
Philanthropy  and  Missions,  during  one 
Fiscal  Year,  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 
To  which  is  added  a  Statement  of  the 
Industrial  Work  of  Women  in  the  State, 
with  Statistics.  Compiled  under  the 
auspices  of  the  State  Committee  on 
Woman's  Work,  for  the  World's  Colum- 
bian    Exposition,     1893 :      Harriet    Anne 


120 


Lucas,    Cliairman;     State    Committee    on 
Woman's  Work  for  Pennsylvania." 

This  work  is  prefaced  by  a  complete 
list  of  tlie  Presidents  and  Secretaries  of 
tlie  several  County  Committees,  the  full 
committees  in  each  case  being  given  at 
pages  64  to  77  of  the  "  Pennsylvania  Book 
of  the  World's  Fair,"  put  forth  early  in 
1893.  The  several  County  Representa- 
tives were  there  designated  as  "  Ladies' 
Auxiliary  Societies,"  in  some  cases 
numbering  twenty  to  thirty  members  for 
the  larger  counties.  This  method  of 
organization  did  elicit  the  most  general 
interest  and  the  greatest  activity  in 
almost   every   county. 

The  scope  and  purpose  of  the  whole 
movement  giving  to  the  ladies  of  the 
country  an  almost  equal  participation 
with    men    in    the   great   work   of    repre- 


121 


senting  tHe  advancement  of  tlie  age  at 
tHe  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  is 
most  strikingly  shown  in  the  words  of 
Mrs.  Lucas'  introduction  to  this  volume 
of  the  results  for  Pennsylvania.  Brief  as 
the  sentences  of  this  introduction  are,  they 
are  most  impressive  from  their  simplicity 
and  from  the  elevation  of  thought  which 
they  embody.  As  the  last  work  of  the 
hand  of  this  noble  lady,  falling  almost 
helpless  from  the  fatigue  of  a  lifetime  of 
elevating  labors,  they  constitute  an 
imperishable  monument  to  her  honor. 

"  Introduction. 

"  When  the  United  States  Congress 
called  into  duty  the  women  of  the  country, 
by  appointing  from  each  State  and 
Territory  two  lady  Commissioners  to  act 
cooperatively  and  equally  with  men  in  the 
formation  of  a  United  States  Commission, 

122 


for  the  creation  of  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition,  to  commemorate  the  Four 
Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  discovery 
of  our  country,  an  honor  was  conferred 
upon  women  such  as  has  never  before 
heen  bestowed  by  a  government. 

"  It  placed  women  at  once,  in  this  great 
international  effort,  on  an  equal  footing 
with  man,  in  the  work  of  developing  the 
great  enterprise  and  bringing  her  tribute 
to  lay  at  the  world's  feet,  in  many  new 
forms  of  labor  and  duty,  in  which  we  find 
her  engaged. 

"  It  was  a  noble  and  generous  action, 
thoroughly,  however,  in  harmony  with  the 
broad  and  liberal  sentiments  of  our  Consti- 
tution, which  in  its  one  hundred  and 
sixteen  years  of  trial  has  developed  the 
most  progressive  nation  in  the  world. 

"  Pennsylvania  was  equally  liberal  in  its 
action  towards  the  Woman's  National 
Commissioners — calling  them  into  co-oper- 
ation with  the  State  Board  for  the  World's 
Fair  Exposition — and  thus  the  State  Com- 
mittee  on   Woman's    Work    was    formed. 


123 


This  Committee  at  once  organized  County 
Committees  for  work  in  their  own  districts 
among  the  women,  and  thus  a  network  of 
busy  women  covered  the  State,  acting  in 
behalf  of  their  sex,  and  bringing  to  the 
front  much  that  could  not  have  been 
otherwise  gathered. 

"  These  statistics  of  the  silent  work 
done  by  women  cannot  be  shown  in  the 
concrete  exhibit,  and  while  they  will  only 
prove  approximate,  they  will  serve  to  show 
how  her  hand  and  heart  worked  together 
in  sustaining  the  weak,  relieving  the 
oppressed,  instructing  the  intellect,  to 
beautify  the  world  with  the  development 
of  taste  and  art,  and  ennobling  the 
aspirations  of  life,  until  the  world  of 
nature  is  transformed  into  the  world  of 
goodness  and  beauty." 

It  is  clearly  a  duty  in  the  present  case 
to  make  further  record  of  the  influential 
position  accorded  to  Mrs.  Lucas  by  the 
Managers    of    the    World's    Fair,    almost 

124 


from  the  outset.  To  do  this  completely 
and  to  present  all  the  evidences  of  desire 
for  her  aid,  and  respect  for  her  cooperation, 
which  were  actually  sent  to  her,  would 
be  difficult,  because  many  of  them  are 
now  beyond  our  reach.  Many  interesting 
letters  are,  however,  where  we  can  refer 
to  them,  and   will   be   cited  here. 

Mrs.  Lucas  appears  as  a  correspondent 
of  the  Lady  Managers  at  Chicago,  from 
the  outset,  ready  with  her  suggestions 
and  encouragement,  and  responding  to 
their  request  for  assistance.  Letters 
from  Mrs.  Lucas  to  them,  unfortunately 
are  not  preserved,  but  the  responses 
of  Mrs.  Palmer,  President,  Mrs.  Susan 
G.  Cooke,  Secretary,  and  others,  appear 
frequently,  from  February,  1891.  The 
management  of  the  Woman's  Department 
at  Chicago  was  in  constant  correspon- 
ds 


dence  during  the  years  189 1-2,  and  all 
the  communications  express  the  most 
ready  and  grateful  acceptance  of 
suggestions  from  Mrs.  Lucas,  as  well  as 
communicated  to  her  all  the  leading 
points  in  the  work  they  were  then 
directing.  I  therefore  give  a  few  of 
Mrs.  Palmer's  and  Mrs.  Cooke's  letters 
during  that  period  and  down  to  March, 
1893. 

It  also  appears  by  the  circulars  issued 
early  in  1891,  some  of  which  are  herein 
quoted,  that  the  original  plans  and 
direction  were  practically  her  work,  as 
she  was  the  most  active  member  of  the 
original   National    Commission. 

The  Act  of  the  State  Legislature 
organizing  the  State  Board  of  World's 
Fair  Managers,  was  passed  June  22,  1891, 
and  was  therefore  second   to  the  creation 

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of  a  Board  under  the  Act  of  Congress 
of  April  25,  1890.  Under  that  first-named 
Act  Mrs.  Lucas  had  been  given  official 
position  as  Lady  Commissioner  for  Penn- 
sylvania. The  Act  of  the  Legislature 
confirmed  that  authority  and  made  it 
responsible   to   the   State. 

The  original  authority,  therefore,  was 
that  of  the  Act  of  Congress  of  1890,  and 
Mrs.  Lucas'  action  was  from  the  outset 
on  the  broadest  field  of  National  duty 
in  the  advancement  of  Women's  interests 
in   the   highest    sense. 

The  letters  that  happen  to  be 
available  for  this  purpose  are  several 
from  Mrs.  Bertha  Honore  Palmer,  in  1891 
to  1893,  and  also  from  the  National 
Secretary,  Mrs.  Susan  G.  Cooke,  covering 
the  same  period.  They  are  incidental 
rather     than     direct,     perhaps     in      their 


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illustration  of  tHe  points  liere  made. 
Of  course  tHe  only  purpose  is  to 
recognize  tlie  unselfisli  earnestness  of 
Mrs.  Lucas,  and  not  to  claim  any 
responsibility  on  tlie  part  of  their 
writers. 


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Correspondence   Relative   to    the    World's 
Fair  Commission. 


It  is  evident  from  the  correspondence 
of  the  officers,  both  of  the  National 
Board  and  that  for  Pennsylvania,  that 
Mrs.  Lucas  was  the  most  active  in 
suggestion  and  the  most  fertile  in 
resources  of  any  of  those  named  on 
either  Commission.  Her  knowledge  of 
the  actual  condition  of  the  several 
interests  which  should  be  represented 
was  promptly  made  known  to  her 
associates,  and  as  promptly  accepted  by 
them.  It  was  this  remarkable  facility 
in  framing  plans  on  an  extensive  scale 
which    gave    her   the    prestige    from    the 

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outset,  and  made  lier  services  permanently 
valuable. 

There  is  hardly  an  instance  in  history 
in  which  a  leading  and  directive  part  has 
been  taken  with  such  efficiency  and  with 
such  valuable  and-  permanent  results. 
This  position  was  recognized  from  the 
outset  by  the  successive  officers  of  the 
entire  Commission. 

From  the  very  organization  in  1890, 
every  attitude  of  the  case  shows  such 
distinguished  service  on  her  part  that 
history  will  give  her  the  leading  position 
as  an  actual  Director  of  the  World's  Fair 
in  all  matters  coming  under  her  reach. 
While  nominally  the  Woman's  Depart- 
ment, and  the  distinction  adopted  in 
Pennsylvania  for  Woman's  Work,  there  is 
no  narrow  limiting  line,  which  makes  it  less 
interesting  or  valuable  to  the  entire  public. 

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Office  of  the  Pres.  Board  of  Lady  Managers, 
World's  Columbian  Exposition, 

Chicago,  February  20,  1891. 

My  Dear  Mrs.  Ivucas  : 

I  learn  from  one  of  the  correspondents  in 
the  "Publicity"  Department  of  the  Exposition 
that,  during  our  recent  meeting,  one  of  the 
ladies  from  Philadelphia,  who  was  particularly 
well  informed  about  the  matter,  gave  quite 
a  detailed  description  of  the  difficulties  with 
which  Philadelphia  had  to  contend  when  pre- 
paring for  the  Centennial,  and  said  our  trials 
and  delays  were  small  in  comparison.  The 
Publicity  Department  is  anxious  to  have  a  long 
and  graphic  article  written  on  this  subject,  and 
so  I  write  to  ask  if  it  was  you  who  made  the 
statement  referred  to,  and  if  you  would  be 
willing  to  write  the  desired  letter? 

I  have  volunteered  to  write  and  ask  you, 
even  though  I  know  you  are  a  very  busy 
woman,  and  I  myself  have  few  moments  to  spare. 

Of  course  you  have  heard  the  good  news  that 
our  building  has  been  granted  us,  to  cost  $200,000. 

I  shall  send  out  in  a  few  days  an  informal 
report  to  our  ladies.  So  much  time  having 
elapsed    since    our    meeting    without    anything 

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apparently  being  done.  President  Palmer,  and 
the  Commissioners,  have  advised  me  not  to 
appoint  the  committees  until  the  Candler  report 
has  been  acted  upon. 

Hoping     that     your    work     is     progressing 
favorably  in   your  State,  I  am, 
Most  cordially  yours, 

Bertha  M.  H.  Palmer. 


Chicago,  March  19,  1891. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas  : 

I  have  received  your  very  interesting   letter, 
and  I  learn  with  regret  that  it  was  not  you  who 
gave   a   reporter   the  interviews   on    Centennial 
work.      Any    report  that  you  can  have  written 
about  the  inside  of  the  work  done  for  the  Cen- 
tennial will   be    greatly  appreciated.      Our  path 
now   seems   relatively  smooth  before  us,    as  we 
have  been  recognized  and  given  an  appropriation 
by  Congress,  and  the  Board  of  Control,  which  met 
this    week,  has    given    us    ample    powers    and 
opportunities  to  develop  any  work  that  we  may 
have  in  contemplation.     I  regret   that   you   are 
such  a  very  busy  woman,  for  I  fear  that  you  will 
not  be  able  to  give  as  much  time  and  thought 
to  our  work  as  we  would  like  to  claim  from  you. 


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I  learn  witli  interest  what  you  have  done  in 
connection  with  silk  culture,  and  I  feel  that 
your  experience  will  be  of  great  value  in  our 
work. 

Hoping  to  hear  from  you  soon,  I  am, 
Yours  most  cordially. 

Bertha  M.  H.  Palmer. 


Chicago,  October  3,  1891. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas  : 

The  marked  copy  of  the  "  British  American," 
is  received  and  I  have  read  your  eloquent 
remarks  with  the  greatest  pleasure. 

The  happy  way  in  which  you  presented  the 
plans  of  our  Board,  after  an  able  rdsumd  of 
the  progress  of  women  through  the  centuries, 
could  not  fail  to  arouse  the  interest  of  all 
your  listeners,  and  I  feel  that  we  are  much 
indebted  to   you  for  this  address. 

Trusting  that  you  are  entirely  rested  from 
the  strain  and  fatigue  of  our  meeting,  and 
thanking  you  once  more  for  you  valued  aid, 
I  am, 

Most  sincerely  yours. 

Bertha  M.  H.  Palmer.' 

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Chicago,  October  14,  1891. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas: 

Through  some  delay  your  letter  was  received 
only  on   yesterday. 

I  do  not  wonder  that  you  think  the  delay 
long  in  sending  out  the  minutes.  I  was 
extremely  anxious  to  print  them  as  soon  as 
possible  after  our  meeting.  It  was  decided  to 
issue  a  manual,  said  manual  to  contain  every- 
thing of  interest  pertaining  to  our  Board.  I 
requested  this  then  to  be  printed  for 
information. 

Mrs.  Palmer  was  absent  for  two  weeks  and 
I  was  not  willing  to  take  the  responsibility  of 
printing.  We,  however,  sent  out  various 
reports,  pamphlets,  etc.,  which  I  fear  from 
your  letter  you  have  not  received. 

The  standing  committees  were  not  appointed 
during  the  session.  Mrs.  Palmer  requested  the 
ladies  to  send  in  their  preferences  when  they 
received  the  classification  report,  which  I 
re-mail  you  at  once.  Miss  Beck  presented 
your  resolutions,  and  I  enclose  type-written 
remarks. 

I  also  enclose  the  blanks  from  the  Director- 
General's    ojBSce.      If    these  do    not    aflford   the 

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desired    information,    pray    let    me    hear    from 
you  again. 

I  omitted  to  say  tliat  Mrs.  Palmer  has  not 
announced  the  standing  committees.  Many 
thanks  for  your  very  kind  personal  inquiries, 
which  I  regret  to  say  I  cannot  answer  in  the 
affirmative,  as  I  still  feel  very  anxious  regarding 
the  minutes. 

If  I  can  serve  you  in  any  possible  way,  dear 
Mrs.  Ivucas,  pray  command  me.  I  regret  the 
delay  in  your  receiving  the  pamphlets.  There 
must  have  been  some  mistake,  as  we  always 
check  off  all  names. 

Very  hastily  and  sincerely, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


(Copy  of  Circular.) 

Chicago,  September  lo,  1891. 
Sir: 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  you  herewith 
a  copy  of  the  following  Memorial,  adopted 
by  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers,  at  a  session 
held  Monday,  September  7,  1891,  and  ordered 
forwarded    to    the     Presidents    of    the    various 

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World's  Fair  State  Boards  and  to  the  Governors 
of  those  States  that  have  not  yet  made 
appropriations. 

Very  respectfully, 

Susan  G.  Cooke, 
Secretary  Board  of  Lady  Managers. 


At  the  meeting  of  the  Ladies'  Board  of  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition,  held  in  Chicago, 
September  7,  1891,  a  full  report  of  the  work 
done  by  the  several  States,  and  their  attitude 
towards  this  great  enterprise,  was  made  by  the 
National  Commissioners  to  that  body. 

The  animus  of  this  most  exhaustive  and 
interesting  report  was  one  of  general  interest 
and  cooperation;  general  but  not  universal,  for 
in  it  we  discover  that  several  of  the  States  have 
not  recognized  their  National  Lady  Commis- 
sioners, and  have  not  made  any  effort,  by 
appropriations,  to  enable  their  States  to  take  a 
representative  position  with  their  sister  States 
at  this  great  Exposition  of  the  World's  Indus- 
tries ;  and  being  in  hearty  sympathy  with  our 
sisters  from  all  the  States  and  Territories,  and 
aiming  for  a  complete  and  exhaustive  expression 

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of  all  the  National  wealth  and  products  of  our 
great  county,  and  the  progress  of  the  women  in 
their  many  valued  lines  of  reform,  as  an  expres- 
sion of  the  voice  of  this  body,  be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  That  a  Memorial,  setting  forth  the 
importance  of  Woman's  Work  in  the  interest 
of  the  Columbian  Exposition  and  urging  the 
appointment  of  women,  including  the  Lady 
Managers,  upon  the  several  State  Boards,  be 
sent  by  this  body  to  the  Presidents  of  the 
various  State  Organizations,  without  delay,  and 
to  the  Governors  of  those  States  and  Territories 
where  no  appropriations  have  been  made,  giving 
them  power  and  means  to  take  their  position 
with  those  more  favored  Commissioners  whose 
States  have  thus  honored  them. 

Mrs.  Robert  B.  Mitchell, 

Mrs.  John  Lucas, 

Matilda  B.  Carse, 

Committee. 


Chicago,  October  28,  1891. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

Your   letter   of    the    twenty-sixth   is    just    at 
hand.     I  regret  so  much  to  hear  of  your  great 


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affliction.       I  was    not   aware  of  any  illness  in 

your  family.   I  think  you  are  very  patriotic  to 

do   so   much   in   World's    Fair  Work    with  so 
much  illness  in  your  household. 

I  trust  you  received  my  letter  of  recent  date, 
explaining  the  detention  of  our  minutes.  The 
vouchers  were  at  first  detained  in  Secretary 
Dickinson's  office,  until  most  of  them  had  been 
received  in  order  to  send  all  at  one  time  to 
Washington. 

I  send  you  the  enclosed  type-written  state- 
ments, which  Mrs.  Palmer  desires  sent  to  the 
Press  in  all  directions.  I  think  the  first 
paragraph  answers  your  inquiry  in  regard  to 
exhibits.  Director-General  Davis  said  to  the 
Executive  Committee,  at  a  recent  meeting  the 
morning  after  our  Board  adjourned,  that  all 
applications,  in  his  opinion,  should  go  to  the 
State  Departments  when  his  Department  received 
them,  the  State  Board  would  be  notified  and  will 
have  a  complete  record  of  what  has  been  ofiered 
and  installed.  If  the  applications  are  first  sent 
to  the  State  Board  they  can  be  accepted  or 
rejected  before  coming  here.  However,  I  under- 
stand that  up  to  the  present  time  no  such  rule 
has  been  established. 

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The  committees  have  not  yet  been  appointed 
or  rules  established  to  govern  the  work  of  our 
building,  (the  Woman's  Building)  Mrs.  Banks 
who  compiles  articles  for  the  Press,  in  the 
oJ05ce  of  Promotion  and  Publicity,  has  just 
informed  me  that  nothing  has  been  decided 
regarding  the  hospital.  Mrs.  Palmer  left  here 
yesterday  on  a  trip  to  Texas.  I  will  present 
your  views  on  the  subject  as  soon  as  she  returns. 

I  trust  you  have  received  the  reports  recently 
mailed  to  you.  Mrs.  Banks  assures  me  that  the 
ladies  of  our  Board  will  hereafter  receive  the 
weekly  "slips"  issued  from  their  office. 
Trusting  I  have  replied  explicitly  to  some  of 
the  various  inquiries  that  interest  us  all,  and 
hoping  to  hear  from  you  soon  and  often,  I 
remain  with  great  sympathy, 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


Chicago,  November  6,  1891. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

Mrs.  Palmer  has  returned  and  has  resumed  the 
duties  of  her  office.  I  submitted  your  inquiry 
regarding  the  model  hospital.  She  suggests  that 
you  send  in  some  proposition  from  Philadelphia 


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hospitals ;  she  will  gladly  receive  suggestions,  as 
nothing  has  yet  been  decided.  The  Manual  has 
gone  to  the  printer  for  the  last  time,  I  am  quite 
sure. 

I  wish  all  our  ladies  realized  how  much  I 
regret  this  delay,  and  that  it  was  caused  through 
no  fault  of  mine  that  they  did  not  receive  the 
Minutes  a  month  ago.  My  work  was  completed 
a  week  after  our  Board  adjourned. 

I  trust  your  health  is  improving.  With  best 
wishes  and  sincere  regards,  I  remain. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


Chicago,  November  i8,  1891. 
Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

In  reply  to  your  highly  esteemed  favor  of  the 
sixteenth  instant,  I  mail  you  at  this  time,  under 
separate  cover,  three  copies  of  the  Classification 
Pamphlet  and  Report  of  Classification  Com- 
mittee. 

Please  find  enclosed  an  item  which  will 
probably  interest  you,  in  regard  to  the  Indian 
Women  in  Arizona  and  New  Mexico.  We 
hope  to  keep  the  members  of  our  Board  fully 
informed    in   future,    and   you   will   receive   the 


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regular  Bulletins  issued  by  the  Department  of 
Promotion  and  Publicity,  as  well  as  some  we 
intend  to  get  up  ourselves. 

I  do  not  feel  myself  in  a  position  to  answer 
your  questions  in  regard  to  the  Women's 
Exchange  of  Philadelphia,  and  I  suggest  that 
you  put  them  in  regular  form,  and  submit  the 
whole  to  Mrs.  Palmer,  upon  her  return  from 
Boston,  which  will  be  in  about  ten  days. 

We  mailed  the  Manual  to  all  the  members 
of  the  Board  yesterday.  Hope  you  have 
received  your  copy  and  find  it  interesting 
reading. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


Chicago,  June  7,   1892. 
Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

Your  favor  of  May  31  is  at  hand.  In  regard 
to  the  Exhibit  of  Ecclesiastical  Embroider}',  I 
cannot  say  what  disposition  would  be  made  of 
it  as  to  place  in  the  building,  as  all  these  subjects 
will  be  decided  by  the  Committee  on  Installation 
yet  to  be  appointed.  The  separate  Guilds  should 
make  application  by  filling  out  one  of  our 
blanks.        They    can    state    their    wish    to    be 

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grouped   together,    but   it   is   impossible   to   say 
now  whether  the  idea  can  be  carried  out. 

We  are  in  daily  expectation  of  the  arrival 
of  the  panels  from  Pennsylvania,  as  Mrs.  Jones 
wrote  that  some  were  ready  to  send,  but  your 
letter  explains  that  you  wish  to  forward 
all  together.  The  time  will  be  extended  to 
suit  your  convenience,  as  we  have  been  obliged 
to  do  in  a  great  many  cases. 

In  regard  to  the  matter  of  securing  space 
we  would  like  to  assure  your  County 
Committees  that  their  application  blanks 
are  properly  cared  for  under  the  following 
routine :  Applications  for  Exhibits  of  Women 
in  the  Main  Buildings  are  sent  to  this  office. 
I  endorse  and  sign  them,  to  show  that  they 
have  passed  through  the  hands  of  the  Board  of 
Lady  Managers,  and  they  are  then  referred  to 
the  Secretary  of  Installation,  Mr.  Hirst,  of 
the  Director-General's  staff,  who,  in  turn 
refers  them  to  the  proper  Department  under 
the  classification.  They  reach  their  proper 
destination  through  our  Board,  and  are 
classified  and  distributed  as  above.  After 
having  been  referred  to  the  Chiefs  of  Depart- 
ments,   notice    is    sent    to    applicants    of     the 

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disposal  of  their  blanks,  and  that  further 
correspondence  will  be  conducted  with  the 
Chiefs  of  the  Department  to  which  they  have 
been  assigned. 

It  gave  me  great  pleasure  to  call  upon 
your  friends  from  Pennsylvania,  and  I  only 
regretted  not  really  making  their  acquaintance, 
but  hope  they  will  be  here  again.  Shall  take 
pleasure  in  delivering  your  message  to 
Mrs.    Baxter. 

Thanking   you   for   your   kind  wishes,  which 
have   been   more   than   fulfilled,  I  remain, 
Very  truly  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke, 

Secretary. 


Chicago,  June  28,   1892. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

Several  letters  have  come  to  me  in  the  past  few 
weeks  opposing  the  appropriation  for  the  Silk 
Industry  Exhibit,  and  it  has  been  intimated  that 
our  entire  appropriation  will  be  opposed  in  case 
we  insist  on  asking  for  a  sum  for  this  purpose. 
I  beg  that  you  will  write  me  a  history  of  the 
Industry,  stating  also  what  the  opposition 
is   to    this    movement,    and   why   it   should    be 

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opposed,  for   I   am   quite  uninformed  as  to  the 
motive  that  leads  to  this  protest. 

Please  let  me  hear  from  you  as  soon  as 
convenient,  as  I  want  to  be  fully  informed 
on  the  subject.  It  would  be  most  unfortunate 
to  have  our  appropriation  opposed  by  naming 
one  item  of  expenditure  which  would  receive 
so  much  antagonism.  I  have  been  led  to 
understand  that  the  representatives  from 
Pennsylvania  itself  will  oppose  our  bill,  if 
we   insist   upon  retaining   this   item. 

In  case  Congress    should  give    no  funds   for 
making  an  exhibit  of  the   Silk  Industry,  have 
you   thought   of    any  other   plan,   and   is   your 
Association  preparing  to  make  a   showing? 
Most  cordially  yours. 

Bertha  Honore  Palmer, 
President   Board  of  Lady  Managers. 


Chicago,  July  20,  1892. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas: 

Your  long  and  interesting  letter  in  regard  to 
the  Silk  Industry  in  this  country  is  received. 
I  hope  you  will  write  me  why  you  call  your 
Association    a    National  Organization.      Is    the 


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California  Association  allied  to  yours,  and 
have  you  also  branches  in  other  States  ? 
Please  let  me  know  in  regard  to  this  point  fully. 
Thanking  you  for  your  prompt  replies  to 
my  inquiries,  I  am. 

Most  cordially  yours. 

Bertha  Honore  Palmer. 


Chicago,  August  22,   1892. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas: 

Your  letter  of  August  i6th  is  just  received,  and 
I  write  very  hastily  to  say,  that  as  our  appropria- 
tion was  reduced  from  the  estimate  we  furnished, 
to  a  considerably  less  sum,  by  Congress,  I  fear 
that  we  shall  not  have  any  money  to  aid  the 
Committee  on  Silk  Culture.  None  of  the 
committees  are  to  receive  any  financial  aid 
from  our  meagre  purse. 

I  am  very  sorry  to  hear  that  you  are  not 
well,  but  trust  you  will  be  quite  recovered 
and  able  to  attend  our  meeting  in  October. 
No  matter  how  able  your  substitute  may  be, 
we  will  feel  that  she  cannot  fill  your   place. 

I  shall  write  more  at  length  later. 
Very  sincerely  yours. 

Bertha  Honore  Palmer. 

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Chicago,  August  27,  1892. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas: 

Your  communication  enclosing  blanks  for  the 
Woman's  Hospital  Exhibit  has  been  received, 
also  your  letter  of  August  23d. 

Thank  you  very  much  for  your  kindly 
Dffers  of  assistance  towards  the  collection  of 
statistics.  I  trust  our  Board  will  meet  in 
October,  when  you  can  present  your  most 
excellent  plan  and  no  doubt  many  will  be 
glad  to  accept  your  method  and  suggestion. 

As  soon  as  Mrs.  Banks,  from  the  office  of 
Publicity  and  Progress,  returns  from  her 
vacation,  I  will  request  her  to  write  an  article 
for  the  papers  relating  to  your  Hospital 
Exhibit. 

Mrs.  Palmer  returned  from  Europe  about 
the  middle  of  June.  She  has  been  spending 
the  month  of  August,  with  her  boys,  at  Camp 
Elsinor,  Adirondacks.  She  writes  that  she 
spends  the  most  of  her  time  out  of  doors  on 
the  Lake ;  she,  however,  manages  to  keep  up 
with  our  work,  and  has  just  sent  for  her 
secretary  and  stenographer. 

In  regard  to  our  funds.  Congress  appropriated 
|i  10,000   for   the   use   of   our   Board.      I   trust 

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you     are     feeling     quite     yourself    these    days. 
With  continued  regards,  I  am, 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


Chicago,  March  3,  1893. 
Dear  Mrs.    Lucas  : 

We  were  very  glad  to  hear  from  you  again 
after  the  long  silence  caused  by  your  recent 
illness,  and  trust  that  you  are  now  quite 
recovered. 

Mrs.  Meredith  is  now  in  Chicago,  her  duties 
as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Awards 
making  it  necessary  for  her  to  take  up  her 
constant  residence  here.  She  can  be  addressed 
in  care  of  this  office. 

We  send  you,  under  separate  cover,  the  tags, 
labels,  etc.,  as  requested,  also  a  copy  of  the 
Minutes  of  the  Sub-Executive  Committee.  We 
are  very  busy  preparing  the  examination  of 
the  exhibits  on  the  15th,  but  will  say  to  you 
that  for  articles  of  the  first  order  of  merit, 
about  which  there  will  be  no  doubt,  we  will 
give  until  the  first  of  April.  It  is  the  great 
bulk  of  the  more  common  work  that  is 
wanted  for    earlier    examination,  so  that  if  in 

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any  particular  case  more  time  is  needed  for 
anything  really  excellent,  you  can  exceed  a 
little  to  the  limit  Trusting  to  hear  from  you 
as  before, 

I  am  very  truly  yours, 

Susan  G.  Cooke. 


Philadelphia,  September  17,  1891. 
Mr.  Benjamin  "Whitman, 

Executive  Commissioner : 
Dear  Sir :  I  found  on  my  desk  this  morning 
your  numerous  letters  of  September  14th,  and 
three  of  September  15th,  for  all  of  which  I 
thank  you  and  for  the  information  contained 
therein.  In  response  I  would  say,  first,  that 
this  letter  is  written  on  the  letter-heads  which 
were  suggested  and  prepared  by  the  original 
Committee  on  Woman's  Work  as  appointed 
by  the  State  Board  and  whose  names  appear 
above.  I  would  respectfully  suggest  that  we 
waive  another  letter-head  until  such  time  as 
this  Committee  on  Woman's  Work  is  per- 
fected, and  thereby  made  more  effectual  and 
active.  I  did  understand  that  Mrs.  Jones  and 
Miss  McCandless  were,  by  vote  of  the  State 
Committee,    added      to     the      Committee     on 

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Woman's  Work,  aud  hope  this  also  meets  with 
your  pleasure  as  it  did  with  the  majority  at 
the  last  meeting.  Seems  to  me  that  it  is  the 
only  way  in  which  we  can  have  effectual 
meetings  which  will  represent  Woman's  Work 
from  the  different  committees.  It  seems  to 
me  this  would  have  been  a  better  arrange- 
ment than  having  any  of  the  ladies  on  other 
committees,  they  should  feel  that  from  all  the 
committees  the  proportion  of  Woman's  Work 
done  in  the  lines  which  they  represent  will  be 
committed  to  the  care  of  this  Committee  on 
Woman's  Work,  hence  there  would  be  a  better 
concentration  of  effort  and  better  material 
created  for  the  report  or  catalogue,  than  by 
spreading  the  few  women  we  have  through 
the  committees. 

I  would  also  suggest  here  that  I  should  very 
much  like  the  names  of  those  ladies  who  are 
representative  women,  such  as  Miss  Emily 
Sartain,  President  of  the  School  of  Design  for 
Women  in  Philadelphia;  Mrs.  McHenr>^  Cox, 
of  the  Indian  School,  or  Mrs.  Mumford,  of  the 
New  Century  Club  (a  club  of  women  who 
took  their  existence  from  our  Centennial)  or 
any  other  representative  women  who  have  been 


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active  in  any  one  line  of  interest  where  good 
work  has  been  accomplished ;  of  course  I  do 
not  offer  these  ladies  in  nomination,  I  am 
only  writing  to  you  suggestions  which  I  should 
be  very  glad  to  have  carried  out.  The  want 
of  action  on  the  part  of  others  puts  me  in 
the  unenviable  position  of  arrogating  to  myself 
more  than  I  desire  or  feel  capable  of  carrying 
through,  besides  the  unpleasant  position  of 
appearing  to  work  too  personally  and  not 
collectively  with  other  women.  I  hope  that 
you  fully  understand  my  position. 

Answering  your  first  proposition  in  reference 
to  ladies  from  our  counties  as  Auxiliary  Com- 
mittees, may  I  ask  one  question?  Is  it 
probable  that  the  Chairman  of  such  Auxiliary 
Committees  could  be  allowed  traveling 
expenses,  say  quarterly,  or  half-yearly,  to 
report  work  at  the  meetings  of  this  com- 
mittee, or  would  any  such  requisites  be 
allowed?  Referring  again  to  this  subject,  do 
you  think  it  would  be  probable  that  a  resolu- 
tion from  the  Women's  Committee  asking  for 
a  pro  rata  share  of  the  whole  appropriation, 
say,  one-thirtieth,  or  one-sixtieth,  to  defray  the 
whole  expense  of  the  Women's  Committee,  we 


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using  our  own  judgment  as  to  the  privileges 
granted  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Auxiliary- 
Committee?  Of  course,  thus  far  we  are  per- 
fectly satisfied  with  what  the  State  Committee 
has  done  ;  but  still  as  the  work  progresses 
other  expenses  will  arise  which  may  not  be 
suggested  to  us  now,  and  if  such  resolutions 
could  be  passed,  the  Women's  Committee 
would  take  care  of  their  own  work,  and  the 
expenses  accruing  thereto.  This  desire  to  have 
representatives  occasionally  from  these  Congres- 
sional Districts  was  my  reason  for  simply 
suggesting  one  lady  as  Chairman ;  she,  in  any 
way  she  conceives  best,  to  form  another 
committee  of  any  number  such  as  would 
represent  the  work  of  that  district  in  women's 
line. 

I  observe  you  say  one  for  each  county,  as 
I  believe  there  are  sixty  counties  and  thirty- 
two  Congressional  Districts.  Would  it  not  limit 
the  work  a  little  more  to  make  a  District 
Representative,  instead  of  the  county?  Please 
understand  this  only  as  a  suggestion.  I  regret 
that  I  was  unable  to  answer  by  return  mail, 
as  my  family  are  still  out  of  town.  I  come  to 
the    office    two     or    three    times    weekly,    and 


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found  your  letter  on  my  return  to-day.  I 
would  be  very  glad  to  have  the  names  for- 
warded to  me  just  as  soon  as  possible,  as  we 
are  growing  eager  for  perfect  organization  and 
distribution  of  information. 

For  Philadelphia  I  would  respectfully  suggest 
Miss  Emily  Sartain,  Directress  of  the  School 
of  Design  for  Women.  I  have  a  circular 
passing  out  to  the  large  bodies  of  representa- 
tive women,  asking  for  delegates  from  their 
bodies  to  act  with  this  committee,  and  find 
several  answers  to-day,  saying  that  the  letter 
will  be  considered  at  the  monthly  meeting  in 
September.  So  that  until  these  letters  have 
been  answered  I  don't  wish  to  name  any 
other  Philadelphia  ladies.  I  wish  I  had  a  copy 
of  your  report.  Is  it  to  be  printed,  and  may  I 
have  it  as  soon  as  possible?  Also  all  printed 
matter  which  the  State  has  issued,  as  I  feel 
greatly  in  need  of  having  something  to  guide 
me,  and  having  left  Harrisburg  hastily  did 
not  bring  that  which  was  placed  upon  the 
desk. 

Referring  to  your  second  clause,  I  thank 
you  very  much  for  the  interest  you  have  taken 
in    asking    for    me    from    the    National    Com- 

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mittee,  the  printed  matter,  and  will  notify  you 
of  its  reception,  I  have  already  received  one 
copy  of  application  for  space,  but  that  was  sent 
only  to  my  Association  and  not  to  the  World's 
Fair  Committee.  To  your  third  clause,  we  wish 
to  open  correspondence  with  these  Auxiliary 
Committees,  and  this  is  what  we  are  eager  for, 
and  will  forward  to  them  our  circular,  to  the 
women  of  the  State,  and  any  details  which  we 
may  receive.  In  what  we  prepare  for  the  State 
alone  I  would  certainly  feel  that  it  should  be 
necessary  for  us  to  confer,  and  will  take  no 
steps  without  meeting  you.  Should  you  be 
coming  to  Philadelphia,  please  notify  me  of 
the  date,  and  I  will  endeavor  to  meet  you  at 
this  office.  Should  I  feel  it  necessary  to  call 
for  you  I  will  kindly  ask  for  you  to  come, 
that  we  may  prepare  such  form  as  we  may 
require  for  the  rapid  development  of  the  work. 
I  enclose  to  you  a  circular  which  I  am 
about  to  have  printed  for  the  women  of  the 
State,  but  which  I  will  defer  having  printed 
until  I  have  your  approval  and  authority.  My 
intention  was  to  send  this  to  the  newspapers 
to  be  printed  and  circulated  to  all  bodies  of 
women  throughout  the  State,  representing  socie- 


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ties  or  organizations,  and  especially  to  tlie 
chairman  of  tlie  District  Auxiliary  Associa- 
tions as  soon  as  I  have  their  names.  If  you 
think  it  best  that  we  should  advise  together 
and  prepare  another  circular,  I  will  defer  the 
immediate  printing  of  this  until  you  write  me 
your  approval ;  also  it  would  be  better  to  defer 
the  printing  of  letter-heads  until  we  can  have 
the  names  of  the  Chairmen  of  the  Auxiliary 
Committees,  and  probably  make  the  existing 
committee  more  effectual  by  substituting  active 
people  for  those  who  are  now  inactive. 

Fifth  clause.  If  you  think  I  could  do  any- 
thing by  talking  with  the  women  during  any 
part  of  the  State  Fair  at  Bethlehem,  I  would 
be  willing  to  run  up  for  a  day  and  do  so, 
although  at  present  I  am  not  quite  well. 

Sixth  clause.  I  would  thank  you  very  much 
if  any  matter  coming  to  your  office  on 
Women's  Work  would  be  immediately  for- 
warded to  this  office.  As  you  again  refer  to 
letter-heads,  I  think  we  had  better  defer  them 
for  the  present,  and  can  no  doubt  in  the  new 
ones   improve  the  quality. 

I  thank  you  in  behalf  of  other  ladies  of 
the    committee    and    in     behalf   of    the    work 


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whicli  I  hope  we  shall    accomplisli,    for    your 
kind  expressions  of  confidence,  and  for  granting 
us  full  correspondence  with  you  on  any  points 
where  we  may  feel  to  need  your  advice, 
I  have  the  honor  to  be, 

Yours  respectfully, 

Harriet  Anne  Lucas. 


Philadelphia,  July  8,  1892. 
Dear  Sir: 

Having    seen    some   of    the    issues    of   your 

paper,    and     having     noticed     that     you    have 

offered   some   space   for   notes    on    the   World's 

Columbian     Exposition,    I     desire     to    forward 

you   a   copy   of    a   number   of    circulars   which 

have   been   issued   from    time  to    time    by    the 

State    Committee     on   Woman's   Work    (whose 

office    is    as    above)    for    the     instruction    and 

information   of    our   County   Committees.       We 

should   esteem   it   a   great   favor   if   you   would 

promulgate   some  of   the   items   of   information 

from  these  circulars  to  the  women  of  the  State 

through     the     columns    of    your    paper.      We 

should   also   be   very  glad   to   answer   questions 

of  interest  that  may  arise  in  your  mind  which 

you  should  desire  to  know,  in  reference  to  the 


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representation  of  Woman's  Work  at  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition.  We  are  especially- 
anxious  to  arouse  business  women  who  are 
making  their  living  through  their  own  business 
firms  to  make  an  exhibit,  as  this  opportunity 
offers  to  women  a  broader  field  than  in  former 
exhibitions  for  presenting  her  goods  in  compe- 
tition with  men's  work. 

We  may  from  time  to  time  send  you  many 
interesting  items  in  the  progress  of  our  work 
if  you  can  give  us  the  space  for  such  infor- 
mation. 

Yoitrs  truly, 

Harriet  A.  Lucas. 


July  8,  1892. 
Circular. 

It  is  recommended  by  the  State  Committee 
on  Woman's  Work,  to  all  women  who  are 
individually  offering  work  for  exhibition  at 
Chicago,  or  to  associations  of  collective  exhibits, 
to  fill  out  application  blanks  intelligently, 
giving  a  full  description  of  the  size,  material 
and  kind  of  work  involved  in  the  exhibits, 
these  blanks  are  to  be  sent  to  the  Secretary 
of  your  County  Committee. 

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A  faithful  record  will  be  kept  and  you  will 
in  due  time  be  notified  to  what  point  your 
exhibit  is  to  be  shipped  for  final  destination 
to  Chicago.  Do  not  give  yourself  any  trouble 
about  where  or  how  it  will  be  placed,  as  in 
this  great  Exposition  this  decision  rests  with 
the  Classification  and  Installation  Committees 
at  Chicago,  and  we  cannot  change  the  plans 
and  scope  of  these  committees. 

Every  exhibitor  must  be  careful  to  attach 
to  the  piece  or  pieces,  their  full  names  and 
address,  the  value  of  the  article,  if  to  be  sold, 
and  whether  or  not  they  shall  be  placed  in 
competition ;  this  last  suggestion  is  imperative, 
as  without  this,  it  will  be  impossible  to  know 
how  to  return  the  goods  to  their  rightful 
owners.  From  these  statements  a  faithful 
record  will  be  kept  by  the  County  and  State 
Committees.  To  adjust  all  the  goods  at 
Chicago  does  not  rest  with  this  committee, 
but  with  the  general  Commission. 

If  exhibits  represent  business  interests,  the 
State  is  not  responsible  for  these  exhibits,  but 
individuals  must  be  at  the  expense  of  preparing 
such  protection  for  their  exhibit  as  they  will 
need,     but     applications     for     space     must     be 


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proceeded  with  as  above  directed,  whether  or 
not  the  individuals  provide  the  proper  cases 
of  protection   for  their  goods. 

Trusting  that  these  explanations  will  make 
you  feel  entirely  comfortable  with  regard  to 
the  careful  distribution  of  your  personal  and 
collective  exhibits. 

Yours  truly, 

Harriet  A.  I^ucas. 


1 200  Walnut  Street, 

January  23,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas  : 

You  are  more  than  kind  in  taking  the 
trouble  to  write  to  me.  I  called  simply  to 
pay  my  respects,  and  do  not  need  to  tax 
you  by  business  matters.  It  gave  me  genuine 
pleasure  to  tell  your  daughter  the  kind  ap- 
preciative remarks  which  I  have  heard  in 
Chicago.  I  was  there  but  two  days,  and 
during  both,  the  thermometer  was  14  degrees 
below  zero.  Our  State  Building  is  in  all 
ways  admirable,  and  far  on  towards  comple- 
tion. Besides  that  I  saw  only  the  Woman's 
Building  and  the  Horticultural.     Things  looked 

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well  advanced,  and  people  talked  hopefully,  but 
there  is  an  undercurrent  of  cholera  scare. 

I  do  indeed  agree  with  you  that  the  County 
Committees  are  a  valuable  body  and  worthy 
of  consideration.  It  was  delightful  to  again 
come  in  contact  with  them  at  Mrs.  Brock's. 
Mrs.  Brock  herself  spoke  appreciatively  of 
the  work  which  you  have  done.  I  met  Mr. 
Brownfield  on  Tuesday  at  the  private  view 
of  the  pictures  intended  for  the  Fair ;  his  son 
and  mine  are  old  friends. 

At  the  end  of  a  busy  day  I  have  only  time 
to  scratch  oflf  this  in  acknowledgment  of  yours. 
Believe  me,  my  dear  Mrs.  I^ucas,  that  the 
patient  endurance  which  you  so  evince  towards 
those  about  you  will  have  its  reward. 
Faithfully  yours, 

Matilda  Hart  Shelton. 


Philadelphia,  February  13,  1893. 
Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

I  have  your  letter  enclosing  circular  in  refer- 
ence to  Advisory  Committees,  also  the  kindly 
caution  in  regard  to  overwork.  I  never  come 
to    the    office   without    feeling    it    is    of    direct 

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use,  there  is  really  a  gi'eat  deal  to  do.  I 
find  Miss  Russel,  and  Miss  Ford,  admirable 
helpers,  and  the  work  with  them  goes  on 
smoothly. 

The  extra  key  for  1224  Arch  Street  will 
be  sent  to-morrow  to  Mrs.  Eltonhead.  The 
Silk  Culture  Association  meet  at  11  o'clock 
on  Thursday ;  this  I  learned  from  Miss  Russel. 
If  you  should  prefer  any  other  time  than 
that  for  sending  your  man  for  some  books, 
please  name  the  time  and  Miss  Ford  will  be 
there. 

The    receipts     for    Dormitory   stock   will    be 
forwarded. 

I  greatly  regret  that  there  are  so  few 
exhibits  booked  from  business  women  in 
Philadelphia,  and  not  more  from  artists 
in  public  and  private  studios.  Were  it  not 
that  I  am  told  that  it  is  too  late  to  receive 
more  applications  for  space,  I  would  indeed 
take  active  measures  by  applying  to  them 
direct,  but  the  time  has  gone  by. 

When  in  Chicago,  Mrs.  Palmer  spoke  to 
me  about  the  great  advisability  of  having 
New  York  assume  charge  of  the  Colonial 
Exhibit.      Mrs.    Trautman    also    spoke    to    me 


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on      tlie      same     subject,     and     expressed     the 

same    view,     I    said    I    agreed    with    them,    if 

Mrs.  Kidder  would  consent  to  the  plan.     They 

said    it  might   be   a   great   relief  to    her,  owing 

to  New    York    being    likely    to    have    a    large 

amount    of    funds    for    the    purpose.     In    New 

York    I   was    recently  told    that    they   hoped    to 

put   aside   $10,000   for   the   Colonial   loan.       In 

that  case  I  feel  they  can  do  it  better  than  any 

other   State.      Your   letter  to    the   Congressmen 

will  go  out  to-day. 

The  room  at  1224  Arch  Street  will  be  open 

to-morrow  from  nine  to  eleven,  and  Miss  Ford 

will  be  there. 

Yours  truly, 

Matilda  Hart  Shelton. 


Harrisburg,  March  10,   1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.   Lucas : 

In  response  to  a  note  from  Miss  Ford,  in  regard 
to  the  printing  of  the  statistics,  would  say,  that 
the  whole  work  can  be  printed  here,  and  of  course 
it  should  be  done  here,  since  there  will  be  no 
money  to  spare  from  the  Women's  Fund. 
You  speak  of  wanting  the  book  bound  like 
the   special    copy,    in   morocco.       Suppose    you 

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would  only  like  a  few  copies  so  bound ;  tHe 
rest  would  have  paper  covers,  like  our  Penn- 
sylvania book.  I  should  think  10,000  copies 
would  be  amply  suflEicient  to  go  around,  but 
you  might  be  the  best  judge  of  this. 

You  will  simply  have  to  express  the  manu- 
scripts, plates,  etc. ;  we  would  take  charge  of 
it,  and  have  it  printed  for  you. 

At  the  Executive  Committee  meeting,  last 
night,  I  brought  up  the  subject,  and  your 
number  of  letters  bearing  upon  the  Silk 
Exhibit.  All  favorable  ;  offered  nothing  against 
it,  and  spoke  strongly  in  favor  myself  of  the 
exhibit.  I  told  them  you  claimed  that  this 
exhibit  was  planned  while  you  were  acting 
head  of  the  Women's  Work;  that  you  had 
made  your  arrangements  and  obtained  space; 
that  it  was  too  late  to  talk  of  giving  it  up; 
that  I  personally  believed  it  would  be  a  very 
interesting  exhibit.  Mr.  Buchanan  was  of  the 
same  opinion,  etc.  They  however,  on  account 
of  scarcity  of  funds  resolved  to  lay  it  over 
until  our  meeting  next  week,  and,  in  the 
meantime,  request  me  to  obtain  from  you 
further  information.  Governor  Watres'  reso- 
lution   in    brief   was:      "That    the    Executive 


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Commissioner  be  requested  to  ascertain  how 
far  we  are  committed  to  this  Silk  Exhibit ; 
whether  Mrs.  Lucas  has  made  arrangements 
and  promises  which  commit,  etc."  I  told 
them  that  I  thought  you  had ;  but  you  can 
write  me  a  letter  which  I  may  receive  before 
the  time  named. 

We  were  very  sorry  not  to  see  Mr.  Blodget ; 
he  did  not  put  in  an  appearance.  Possibly 
he  may  come  to  the  next  meeting,  seven 
o'clock  Thursday  evening,  which  is  called  to 
discuss  finances  and  further  appropriation.  No 
action  was  taken  about  your  position  in  the 
Board,  for  the  reason  that  that  has  never  been 
disturbed.  Your  title  is  just  the  same  as  it  always 
was ;  it  was  simply  resolved  that  the  work 
was  to  be  turned  over  to  Mrs.  Shelton,  and 
all  responsibility  pertaining  thereto  ;  and  as 
I  have  already  told  you,  if  the  Executive 
Committee  were  5^our  brothers,  it  was  just  what 
they  ought  to  have  done.  All  feel  kindly 
toward  you,  and  at  any  rate  you  know  well 
that  I  do.  I  cannot  say  more  than  that,  for  I 
am   very  sincerely 

Your   friend, 

A.  B.  Farquhar,  Ex.  Commissioner. 

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Harrisburg,  March  i6,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

It  was  proposed  that  we  give  $1,000  to  the 
Children's  Home,  sometime  since,  though  it  was 
never  definitely  turned  over.  This  $1,000  I  am 
going  to  divert  to  you  for  the  Silk  Exhibit. 
Presume  it  would  meet  your  approbation.  It 
would  be  of  more  interest  to  Pennsylvania. 

Our  work  seems  to  be  going  on  very  nicely 
now.  You  will  be  glad  to  hear,  and  if  Mrs. 
Shelton  does  not  work  herself  to  death  we 
will  probably  make    a  very  creditable    exhibit. 

Mrs.  Palmer  writes  that  she  is  going  to 
give  us  all  the  time  possible,  but  the  exhibits 
all  ought  to  be  there  early  in  April,  and  they  should 
know  immediately  the  amount  of  space  wanted. 

We  have  a  meeting  of  the  Commission 
to-night.    Am  sorry  you  will  not  be  able  to  attend. 

Yours  truly, 

A.   B.  Farquhar, 
Ex.  Commissioner. 


Harrisburg,  March  23,  1893. 
Dear  Mrs.  Lucas  : 

It  is  always  pleasant  to  know  that  we  have 
friends.     Yesterday  I  told  you  to  go  ahead  with 


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the  Silk  Exhibit,  if  the  funds  could  not  be 
furnished  otherwise,  you  might  command  them 
from  me  individually,  and  upon  my  return 
home,  I  found  the  enclosed  telegram  from  Mrs. 
Palmer,  which  relieves  me  entirely. 

They  have  plenty  of  money  now  I  believe  in 
Chicago  for  the  Children's  Home,  and  every- 
thing else. 

I  send  you  the  dispatch,  for  its  kind  words 
of  you.     Hoping  that  you  are  better,  I  am, 
Yours  truly, 

A.  B.  Farquhar, 

Ex.  Commissioner. 


Wilmington,  N.  C,  February  7,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas: 

Your  last  letter,  with  a  copy  of  the  one  you 
purpose  sending  your  Representatives,  is  at 
hand,  and  I  hasten  to  notify  you  of  the  fact 
that  the  petition  has  at  last  gone  to  Senator 
Ransom,  who  I  trust  will  take  prompt  and 
immediate  action  in  the  matter,  so  I  shall  be 
glad  to  have  you  send  your  circular  letter  as 
early  as  possible  to  your  Senators  and  Con- 
gressmen, and  I  am  sure  such  a  letter  coming 
from  you  will  carry  its  influence.     And  let  me 

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thank  you,  my  dear  Mrs.  Lucas,  for  your  compli- 
ment to  me,  which  I  feel  all  undeserving,  but 
which  I  greatly  appreciate.  I  received  a  few 
days  ago  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Troutman,  saying 
that  the  New  York  State  Board  was  going  to 
make  a  proposition  to  me,  which  she  advised 
my  accepting,  and  this  morning's  mail  brought 
me  a  letter  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Local 
Committee  presenting  the  proposition  as  follows : 
"  You  are  authorized  to  say  to  your  committee 
that  it  is  proposed  that  New  York  take  charge  of 
the  Colonial  Exhibit  of  the  whole  country,  and 
assume  the  care  and  protection  thereof,  provided, 
the  State  of  New  York  make  the  appropriation 
in  the  bill  now  pending  in  the  Legislature,  and 
provided  that  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of 
the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  appropriate 
$25,000  for  that  purpose  and  place  the  amount 
at  the  disposal  of  the  Colonial  Committee  of  the 
Woman's  Board  of  Lady  Managers  from  New 
York,  and  provided  the  exhibit  can  be  made  in 
the  Government  Building." 

Now  what  do  you  think  of  this  proposition? 
It  is  a  question  that  of  course  I  cannot  individu- 
ally decide.  I  shall  put  the  proposition  before 
the  seven  States  who  have  signified  their  inten- 


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tion  of  uniting  in  a  co-operative  exhibit  and 
eacii  must  decide  for  itself.  I  fancy  the  States 
which  have  no  funds  to  meet  the  expense  of  a 
Colonial  Exhibit  will  be  glad  to  get  under  the 
wings  of  New  York,  but  I  doubt  very  much  if  a 
great  State  like  your  own  will  accede  to  this 
plan.  So  I  write  first  to  hear  the  voice  of 
Pennsylvania   upon  this  important   project. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Florence  H.  Kidder. 


Wilmington,  N.  C,  March  7,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.   Lucas: 

Knowing  your  feeble  health,  it  is  always  with 
reluctance  that  I  impose  one  of  my  letters 
upon  you,  but  not  only  as  a  member  of  the 
Centennial  Committee,  but  also  because  you 
are  so  helpful  and  suggestive  to  me,  do  I 
often  feel  the  impulse  to  write  to  you. 

I  received  some  days  ago  your  communi- 
cation enclosing  Mr.  O' Neil's.  I  refrained 
from  answering  it  at  once,  because  I  have 
been  waiting  further  developments,  and  also 
awaiting  some  authentic  information  from 
Senator  Ransom  about  our  bill.  I  have  not 
heard   direct   from    him,    but    heard    from    my 


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friend  and  alternate,  Mrs.  Gotten,  who  is 
representing  me  on  the  Federal  Legislative 
Committee,  now  in  Washington.  She  writes 
me  that  we  will  not  get  our  $25,000  appro- 
priation. I  fancy  from  what  she  writes  that 
it  was  simply  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Appropriations,  and  never  did  go  before  either 
the  House  or  the  Senate.  I  do  not  state 
this  authoritatively,  but  it  is  only  an  inference ; 
however,  the  fact  remains  that  the  Fifty-second 
Congress  has  adjourned  and  we  did  not  get 
our   money. 

There  is  but  one  thing  left  for  us  to  do, 
and  that  is  to  unite  the  Colonial  Exhibits  of 
Pennsylvania,  New  York  and  North  Carolina, 
with  the  addition  of  heirlooms  from  Territories 
and  States  other  than  Colonial.  And  I  have 
had  the  offer  of  many  historic  relics  from 
California  to  Maine.  From  Montana  comes 
the  offer  of  a  most  interesting  collection,  and 
the  State  Board  will  pay  all  costs.  Our  North 
Carolina  State  Board  has  given  not  a  penny 
to  the  Colonial  work,  but  through  my  indivi- 
dual effort  and  personal  appeal  to  our  people, 
I  have  collected  a  sufficient  sum  for  all  expenses 
for   insurance,   transportation,   etc.,  and  we  can 

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make  a  most  interesting  and  historic  display. 
I  am  seriously  thinking  of  going  on  to  New 
York  and  Philadelphia  next  week  and  see  if 
I  cannot  make  arrangements  with  the  Colonial 
Committee  of  those  States,  and  have  them 
consent  to  a  united  exhibit  of  the  three  States. 
Do  you  think  it  advisable  that  I  should  do 
so?     Please  tell  me  frankly. 

We  have  so  little  time  to  lose  that  what  is 
to  be  done  must  be  done  promptly,  and  letters 
are  at  the  best  unsatisfactory.  I  have  had 
some  correspondence  with  Mrs.  Frederick  R. 
Jones,  of  the  New  York  Board,  and  she  thinks 
that  both  Massachusetts  and  New  Jersey  could 
be  secured  for  a  united  exhibit,  although  their 
Representatives  on  the  Colonial  Committees, 
Mrs.  French  and  Miss  Russel,  answered  that 
their  articles  would  go  with  their  building. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  have  a  line  from  you  as 
to  the  practicability  of  my  seeing  the  New 
York  and  Pennsylvania  State  Boards. 

I  beg  that  you  will  pardon  this  hurriedly 
written  letter,  which,  I  fear,  you  have  scarcely 
found  legible. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Florence  H.  Kidder. 

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Wilmington,  March  20,   1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.   Lucas  : 

I  am  sure  Mrs.  Gillespie,  wlio  was  in  Wash- 
ington with  Mrs.  Troutman  and  Mrs.  Gotten, 
has  told  you  of  the  space  accorded  us  in  the 
rotunda  of  the  Government  Building,  and  that 
it  is  decided  to  place  our  Colonial  relics  there. 
The  necessarily  limited  space  greatly  curtails  the 
plan  and  scope  of  our  exhibit,  and  I  cannot  carry 
out  my  original  plan  of  a  large  and  compre- 
hensive display  in  the  Woman's  Building.  But 
I  fancy  it  will  be  more  unique  and  historic, 
and  more  in  keeping  with  the  dignity  of  the 
Government,  and  with  the  assurance  of  Govern- 
ment protection. 

I  find  the  apathy  which  has  heretofore  per- 
vaded many  of  the  States  has  been  dispelled, 
and  many  whose  exhibits  were  to  be  placed 
in  their  State  buildings  will  now  make  a 
Colonial    display    in     the     Government    Build- 


ing. 


The  space  allotted  us  comprises  six  alcoves, 
thirteen  feet  wide  and  three  feet  deep  with 
about  fifteen  feet  of  wall  space.  The  idea  was 
to  apportion  one  alcove  to  two  States,  but  I 
think  there  will  be   many  of  the  States  which 

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will  make  no  Colonial  display,  and  this,  of 
course,  will  give  the  others  an  extension  of 
room.  I  do  not  believe  that  either  Georgia  or 
South  Carolina  will  come  in.  In  my  own 
State,  North  Carolina,  I  have  by  individual 
effort  raised  the  amount  necessary  to  cover  the 
cost  of  our  Colonial  display,  which  I  trust  will 
be  interesting. 

I  hope  you  have  had  sent  you  from 
Washington  the  blue  print,  showing  our  posi- 
tion in  the  Government  Building.  It  is  in 
close  proximity  to  the  Department  of  State 
and  of  Justice,  where  will  be  displayed  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States,  and  many  other  kindred 
documents. 

The  whole  building  will  be  patrolled  night 
and  day.  The  Board  has  reserved  the  right 
to  pass  in  detail  upon  all  the  articles  exhibited, 
and  the  display  will  be  subject  to  all  the  rules 
and  regulations  of  the  Government  Board,  both 
as  to  the  selection  of  the  articles  and  the 
manner  of  installation. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Florence  H.  Kidder. 


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Rome,  Italy,  March  29,  1893. 
Mrs.  John  Lucas,   Philadelphia: 

Dear  Madam :  I  beg  to  submit  to  your 
approval  the  following  report  concerning  the 
work  done  in  Japan  to  interest  the  ladies  of 
that  country  in  the  Woman's  Department. 

Upon    my    arrival    in    Tokio   I     had   a   long 
talk    on    the    subject    with    Mr.    Edwin    Dun, 
Charge  d'Afiaires    ad    interim    of     the    United 
States,  who  told  me  that  up  to  that  time  (March 
1892)    it   had   been    impossible   to   interest   the 
Japanese    in    the    Woman's    Department.       He 
was  very  anxious    to  do   all   he   could,    but   he 
did  not    think   that   the    Government   and    the 
Imperial     Commissioner    were     in    favor    of    a 
Woman's  Exhibit.     Yet,  he  thought  that  if  the 
Empress   could  be   interested  in  the  matter  she 
might    do    something,    as    she    is    very   liberal 
and    progressive ;   but   he    considered   it  impos- 
sible to  approach  her,  and   was  convinced  that 
no   woman    in    Japan   would    take   an    interest 
in    the     Exposition     unless    she     should     first 
approve    of    it.     Mr.     Dun    told    me   that    the 
address  by  you  to  the  Empress  had  been  sent 
to   him   by  the    State    Department,  and  that   he 
had   given   it   to    H.   E.    Yashitane   Sannomiya, 


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Vice   Grand   Master   of  tlie   Ceremonies   of  the 
Imperial  Court,    whom   he   considered    the   best 
man  likely  to  be  interested,  as  he  had  traveled 
much,     is    very    progressive    and    liberal,    and 
that  his  wife  is  English.     I  requested  Mr.  Dun 
to  introduce   me  to  Mr.   Sannomiya,   which  he 
kindly  agreed   to   do.     The   following   morning 
he  took   me  to  the    Imperial  Household,  where 
I  had  a  long  talk  with  Mr.  Sannomiya.     Your 
letter  had  not  yet  been  given  to  Her  Majesty, 
but    he    promised    me    that    it   would    be   pre- 
sented   to   her   at     once.       I     told     him    what 
the   Government    and    ladies    of    the    different 
European   countries   were    doing,    which    inter- 
ested him  greatly. 

Two  days  after,  being  Madame  Sannomiya's 
"at  home,"  I  called  on  her,  accompanied  by 
a  mutual  friend.  General  Legendre,  Vice 
Minister  of  the  Home  Department  of  the  King 
of  Corea.  Madame  Sannomiya  did  not  think 
that  the  women  of  Japan  would  possibly  have 
anything  to  do  with  the  Exposition,  and  to 
use  her  own  expression,  when  she  spoke  of  it 
later,  "she  simply  sat  on  me,"  and  told  me 
I  was  losing  my  time.  She  and  the  other 
ladies,  whom  I  met  afterwards,  were  convinced 


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that  the  Japanese  women  had  nothing  of 
interest  to  send. 

Two  following  days  I  studied  the  matter 
deeply,  found  many  things  of  interest,  which 
could  be  sent  by  the  Japanese  ladies — not 
only  their  beautiful  work,  but  that  of  the 
women  of  the  poorer  classes,  and  many  things 
to  illustrate  the  schools,  hospitals.  Society  of 
the  Red  Cross,  etc. 

I  found  out  that  women  had  had  much  to 
do  with  the  Histor\',  Literature  and  Arts  of 
the  country,  and  armed  with  many  sugges- 
tions, and  a  better  knowledge  of  the  question, 
I  called  again  on  Madame  Sannomiya ;  in 
fact,  I  called  several  times,  and  from  that  time 
she  became  a  warm  supporter  of  my  plans — 
though  she  had  little  hope  in  their  success. 
One  day  she  exclaimed :  "If  the  Empress 
could  only  be  interested."  It  was  clear  that 
nothing  could  ever  be  done  unless  the  Empress 
should  approve.  But  to  approach  her  was 
declared  to  be  an  impossibility  by  the  United 
States   IMinister  and  all   my  friends. 

I  had  taken  with  me  to  Japan  a  powerful 
stereopticon  apparatus  and  views  of  all  the 
places    of   interest   in    the    United    States,    and 

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also  views  of  all  the  buildings,  palaces  and 
gardens  of  tlie  Exposition  as  they  now  appear. 
I  proposed  to  give  a  lecture  before  their 
Majesties — a  proposition  which  made  most  of 
my  friends  smile  as  it  was  considered  altogether 
impossible. 

Napoleon  said  long  ago  that  "  impossible  "  was 
not  French,  and  very  fortunately  it  was  French  I 
had  to  use  in  my  dealings  with  the  Court.  Meet- 
ing every  day  in  a  social  way  persons  connected 
with  the  Court,  I  did  not  lose  an  opportunity 
of  getting  nearer  and  nearer,  and  after  several 
weeks  of  difficult,  delicate,  strategetical  and 
diplomatic  manoeuvres,  I  succeeded  in  being 
received  by  their  majesties  and  delivered  my 
lecture  before  them  and  the  ladies  of  the  Court. 
This  success  I  owe  greatly  to  the  efforts  of 
Mr.  Dun,  Mr.  and  Madame  Sannomiya  and 
Marquis  Kido.  The  lecture  was  such  a  success 
that  the  United  States  Charge  d' Affaires  sent  a 
special  telegram  about  it  to  the  State  Depart- 
ment. In  the  lecture  I  said  all  I  could  in  favor 
of  the  Woman's  Department,  showing  views 
and  plans  of  the  buildings  and  a  photograph 
of  the  President.  Her  Majesty  was  very  much 
interested,  and  a  few  days  afterwards  I  had  the 


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pleasure  of  hearing  that  she  was  thinking  of 
appointing  a  Commission.  I  had  been  charm- 
ingly entertained  at  the  Palace,  and  the  Emperor 
was  so  pleased  with  the  views  that  he  sent  me 
for  presents  two  fine  pieces  of  Cloisonn^,  by 
Namikarva,  the  great  Japanese  Artist.  At  that 
time  I  left  for  China,  and  was  absent  nearly 
one  month.  Upon  my  return  I  received  a  call 
from  Marquis  Kido,  Master  of  Ceremonies  of 
the  Court,  who  brought  the  good  news  that 
her  Majesty  had  appointed  a  Commission 
composed  of  the  most  prominent  women  of 
Japan.  Furthennore  she  had  given  from  her 
own  purse  the  money  to  carry  on  the  expenses 
of  the  Lady  Commissioners.  I  said  at  the 
beginning  of  this  letter  that  the  Imperial 
Commissioners  were  against  the  appointment 
of  such  a  Commission.  They  were  especially 
afraid  to  have  to  pay  the  expenses  of  the 
Government's  appropriations.  But  when  they 
saw  that  the  Empress  herself  was  interested,  and 
would  furnish  the  money,  they  changed  their 
minds  and  became  warm  supporters  of  the 
Ladies'  Commission.  Mr.  Sannomiya,  and 
Marquis  Kido,  were  appointed  by  her  Majesty 
as  advisors  to  the  Ladies'  Commission.     Marquis 


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Kido,  frankly  admitted  that  it  was  a  new  work 
to  him  and  to  the  ladies.  I  suggested  that  I 
might  be  able  to  advise  them  and  to  explain 
what  was  the  aim  and  purposes  of  the  Woman's 
Department.  IVIy  proposition  was  accepted  at 
once.  Princess  Mari,  called  a  meeting  of  the 
ladies  at  one  of  the  Imperial  Palaces,  and  there 
I  had  the  honor  to  address  them.  After  giving 
them  a  full  history  of  the  Woman's  Department, 
I  explained  what  had  been  done  in  other  coun- 
tries, and  suggested  many  things  which  could 
be  done  successfully  by  Japanese  ladies.  I 
showed  them  plans  of  the  buildings,  explained 
that  the  Exposition  would  be  divided  into  several 
rooms,  and  that  therefore  it  was  necessary'  for 
them  to  decide  at  once  upon  the  amount  of  space 
they  needed  in  each  room.  After  they  had 
offered  me  a  delightful  supper,  the  ladies  decided 
that  they  would  need  one  thousand  square  feet. 
I  knew  it  would  be  diflBcult  to  give  so  much 
space,  and  as  it  was  absolutely  necessary  that  the 
ladies  should  know  as  soon  as  possible  whether 
they  could  have  it  or  not  before  beginning  their 
work,  I  promised  them  that  I  would  see  you 
personally  and  cable  them  how  much  space  you 
could  afford  to  give  them. 


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Upon  my  arrival  in  Chicago  I  heard  that 
you  were  in  the  Adirondack  Mountains,  and 
the  Secretary,  Mrs.  Cooke,  told  me  that  she  did 
not  think  that  the  Japanese  women  could  be 
given  more  than  four  hundred  feet.  I  imme- 
diately decided  to  see  you  in  person,  and  went 
to  Paul  Smith's,  in  the  Adirondack  Mountains, 
where  I  had  the  honor  to  report  to  you. 

After  our  interviews  I  was  able  to  cable  to 
Mr.  Sannomiya,  "eight  hundred  feet  assured, 
probably  two  hundred  more  later."  Two  weeks 
later  I  sailed  again  for  Japan,  where  I  found 
the  ladies  delighted  with  the  space  given  to 
them.  Her  Majesty  and  the  most  prominent 
ladies  of  Japan,  were  taking  great  interest  in 
the  Exposition.  I  called  the  attention  of 
these  ladies  to  the  presence  in  Tokio  of 
Mrs.  Frederick  Winston,  and  suggested  that 
she  might  give  them  some  advice.  A  reception 
was  organized  by  Mrs.  Coombs,  at  the  United 
States  Legation,  where  Mrs.  Winston  met  all  the 
lady  Commissioners.  A  few  days  afterward  (the 
evening  before  my  departure)  Princess  Man 
entertained  at  dinner  Mrs.  and  Mr.  Winston 
and  myself;  at  that  dinner  all  the  members  of 
the  Commission  were  present 

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This  is,  Madam,  liow  the  Lady  Commission 
of  Japan  was  formed.  Thanks  to  the  interest 
of  her  Majesty,  to  the  efibrts,  first  of  Mr.  and 
Madam  Sannomiya,  and  Marquis  Kido,  and 
then  to  those  of  Princess  Mari  and  other  ladies, 
it  will  doubtless  send  a  most  interesting 
exhibit 

I  am  most  happy  to  have  been  able  to  do 
this  much  to  thank  you  for  all  your  kindness, 
and  for  the  interest  shown  me  by  the  Board  of 
Lady  Managers. 

Believe  me,  Madam, 

Yours  very  respectfully, 

A.  B.  de  Guerville, 
Honorary  Commissioner. 

At  the  request  of  Mr.  de  Guerville,  who  is 
ill,  the  above  report  has  been  copied  and 
forwarded  to   you.  B. 


428  South  Thirteenth  Street, 

Philadelphia,  April  10,  1893. 
My  Dear  Friend  Mrs.  Lucas : 

I  am  very  very  sorry  to  hear  that  you  have 
been  so  ill.  I  hope  you  will  be  better  soon,  and 
will  be  able  to  teach  our  Chinese  friends  again. 


179 


If  it  is  not  so,  of  course  our  Heavenly  Father 
knows  what  is  best  for  you  and  us  all.  I  visited 
your  Sunday-school  yesterday  afternoon.  I  must 
say  you  have  faithful  teachers  at  your  school,  I 
met  many  of  them  whom  I  had  met  before,  and 
I  am  often  thinking  of  my  warm  friend 
Mrs.  Lucas,  who  has  done  so  much  for  our 
countrymen  in  this  Christian  land.  Shall  we 
not  appreciate  your  kindness  ;  certainly  we  will 
not  forget  your  kindness,  what  you  have  done 
for  our  men  before.  I  am  sure  we  are  greatly 
indebted  to  you  for  your  kind  heart,  lady.  May 
the  dear  Lord  bless  thee,  and  keep  thee. 
With  kind  regards  to  you  and  family. 
Very  faithfully  yours, 

Moy  Shoo  Po. 


May  I,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

The  Auxiliary  of  Bucks  County  have  just 
held  a  meeting  to  take  a  r^sum^  of  our  work, 
and  to  act  upon  the  proposed  "Permanent 
Organization;"  but  I  feel  that  I  cannot  draw  the 
work  to  a  conclusion  without  a  note  of  thanks 
to  you  for  your  very  acceptable  and  cordial  help 
through   the   difficult   parts   of   it.      I   received 

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your  last  circular,  and  fully  understood  and 
appreciated  your  position,  and  felt  sincere 
regret  that  your  health  had  prevented  you 
from  continuing  in  active  work  to  the  end, 
and  finishing  what  you  had  so  successfully 
planned  and  carried    on  almost  to   completion. 

I  thank  you  personally  for  your  prompt  and 
helpful  response  in  all  times  of  difficulty,  and 
assure  you  that  your  kindness  will  be  one  of  the 
pleasant  memories  of  the  occasion. 

The  committee  join  with  me  in  expressions  of 
appreciation  and  thanks. 

Believe  me,  very  sincerely  yours, 

(Miss)  Louise  H.  Smith, 
Chairman  Berks  County  Aux. 


Chicago,  May  4,  1893. 
Dear  Nellie : 

From  Miss  Ford  I  hear  of  the  extreme  illness 
of  your  dear  sweet  mother.  She  has  been  so 
lovely  to  me,  and,  Nellie  dear,  my  love  for  her  is 
strong  and  I  know  she  was  fond  of  me.  It  does 
seem  hard  that  neither  General  McClelland  or 
your  lovely  mother  could  see  the  consummation 
of  their  hopes. 

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I  wrote  a  long  letter  to  your  mother,  but  feared 
that  reading  might  worry  her.  Mrs.  Shelton 
has  carried  out  our  plans,  and  Pennsylvania  is 
behind  no  State.  Instead  of  ours,  I  should  have 
said  Mrs.  Lucas'  plans. 

Give  your  mother  much  love,  from  her 
attached  friend, 

Mary  E.  McCandless. 


143  East  Thirty-fourth  Street, 

New  York  City,  May  5,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mrs.  Lucas : 

In  a  letter  which  I  received  from  Miss  Mary 
F.  Smith,  a  contribution  from  you  toward 
St.  John's  College  was  enclosed  with  one  from 
her.  I  want  to  say  a  hearty  "thank  you" 
to  you,  and  tell  you  how  much  I  appreciate  your 
remembrance  of  my  work.  It  is  very  kind  of 
you  in  the  midst  of  ill  health  to  think  of 
me  and  of  St.  John's  College. 

I  wish  I  could  have  met  you  and  talked  over 
the  work  among  the  Chinese  in  America,  for  I 
am  told  you  inaugurated  the  Chinese  Sunday- 
school  at  Epiphany  Church. 

You  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  so  far  I  have 
secured  over  $14,000  of  the  $20,000  I  want  to 


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raise.      I    still    hope    to   be    able    to    raise  the 
balance. 

Hoping  this  will  find  you  in  better  health, 
and  that  it  may  please  God  to  spare  you  for 
many  years  to  come,  to  carry  on  the  work  for 
his  Kingdom,  I  am, 

Yours  sincerely, 

(Rev.)  F.  ly.  Hawks  PotL 


Philadelphia,  July  20,  1893. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Lucas: 

I  sincerely  appreciate  your  sending  me  the 
Memorial  Sermon.  I  read  it  with  much 
interest  last  evening.  It  is  a  beautiful  tribute 
to  Mrs.  Lucas'  memory,  and  the  record  of  her 
life  as  given  by  Dr.  Stone,  should  be  an 
incentive  to  all  her  friends. 

Yours  sincerely, 

Wm.  M.  Coates. 


Erie,  Penna.,  July  29,  1893. 
Dear  Sir : 

If  you  can  conveniently,  be  kind  enough  to 
send  me  a  copy  of  the  Memorial  of  Mrs.  Lucas, 


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a  notice  of  whicli  I  see  in  the  Philadelphia 
papers.  I  am  one  of  those  who  greatly  honored 
Mrs.  Lucas,  and  remain  true  to  her  memory. 
Excuse  haste  and  form,  as  I  am  just  leaving 
home,  and  write  at  the  depot,  in  order  that 
I  may  not  be  too  late  to  receive  a  copy. 

Yours  truly, 

Benjamin  Whitman. 


No.  112  W.  Fourteenth  Street, 

New  York,  June  14,  1888. 
Mr.  Lorin  Blodget : 

Dear  Sir  :  Your  letter,  with  others,  I  received 
just  as  I  was  coming  away  for  a  short  visit  to  my 
son  in  New  York,  and  I  take  this  spare  moment 
to  thank  you  for  your  kind  appreciation  of  my 
effort  in  behalf  of  "  Home  Missions."  I  greatly 
believe  there  is  a  missionary  spirit  in  me,  which 
while  God  has  given  me  a  Home  Mission  to  do 
in  my  family,  also  finds  (for  I  do  not  really  seek 
it)  a  duty  to  many  not  of  that  household,  but 
of  the  great  brotherhood  of  God.  The  Chinese, 
a  race  which  it  seems  to  me,  God  has  placed  in 
the  direct  line  of  duty  for  this  American  people, 

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the  Italians,  wlio  are  now  forming  a  composite 
part  in  daily  and  public  labor  in  our  large  cities, 
(see  Carl  Spreckel's  work)  and  in  any  other  work 
or  race  who  may  cross  my  path,  and  need  my 
advice,  or  any  helping  hand. 

Is  not  this  the  Mission  Christ  came  to  teach  ? 
I  can  find  no  other,  not  of  creeds  and  doctrines, 
etc.,  though  all  those  as  He  and  His  Apostles — 
so  Divinely  taught — I  respect  and  revere,  and 
these  only. 

I  am  glad  to  tell  you  that  our  appropriation 
of  $5,000  for  1888-89  is  secure.  I  fear  we 
are  not,  in  the  Woman's  Silk  Culture 
Association,  living  up  to  our  opportunities. 
I  want  to  see  John  Cutter  while  he  is  here, 
I  want  to  be  a  missionary  to  him.  Do  you 
think  we  could  open  a  small  plant  of 
machinery  and  manufacture  our  own  silk 
into  underwear  or  knitted  goods?  There  is 
a  little  trouble  in  regard  to  our  market  for 
the  silk  we  have.  Call  on  Mrs.  Souder  and 
ask  her  to  see  a  copy  of  my  letter  just  sent 
to  Cutter.  Remember  Strange,  Tilt,  Dexter, 
Lambert  and  others. 

I    would   like   to   talk   to   you  on  my  return 
next  week.       My   sons   at    Garden   City,   Yale 

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and     Sing   Sing,     are    having    commencement 
exercises  this  week  for  which  I  am  here. 

Yours  truly, 

Mrs.  John  Lucas. 


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Summary  of  the  Results  of  Woman's  Work. 


The  Report  of  the  Woman's  Work  Committee 
for  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  forms  a  volume 
of  135  pages,  in  which  the  results  of  the 
examination  made  by  that  committee  are  stated 
with  full  details  first,  and  ultimately  in  the 
summary  form. 

This  report  is  of  itself  a  marked  departure 
from  the  usual  exhibits  of  charitable  and 
industrial  occupations.  The  intention  is  to 
give  the  distinctive  work  of  women,  and  it 
will  surprise  all  ordinary  readers  to  find  so 
many  institutions  for  Instruction,  Reform, 
Philanthropy  and  Missions.  Full  descriptions 
are  given  of  one  hundred  and  forty-six  insti- 
tutions of  this  class,  founded  and  directed  by 
women;  the  name,  the  location,  the  date  of 
founding,  the   name   of  the   Principal,   a   brief 

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of  the  purpose  of  each,  and  the  means  of 
support  being  given  in  each  case.  In  the  first 
portion  of  the  voltune  a  description  of  the 
building  and  a  handsome  engraved  design  is 
given  for  most  of  these  institutions.  The 
leading  facts  in  the  history  and  the  founding 
of  these  institutions,  with  the  names  of  those 
connected  in  any  manner  with  the  direction 
are  given  in  each  case.  This  report,  therefore, 
constitutes  a  complete  directory  to  all  institu- 
tions chartered  for  the  purposes  before  named, 
in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  founded  by 
women. 

The  educational  features  of  several  of  these 
institutions  are  also  prominent,  and  they  are 
all  designed  to  elevate  and  instruct  all  their 
beneficiaries,  so  as  to  fit  them  for  active  life 
as  independent  citizens. 

This  department  of  the  work  done  by  women 
closes  with  page  lOO  of  the  report,  with  the 
tabulation  showing  the  total  work  done  by 
one  hundred  and  forty-six  institutions. 

The  second  portion  of  the  work  relates  first 
to  "Industrial  Statistics  of  Women's  Work  in 
Pennsylvania."  In  this  portion  a  summary  is 
given,  first    of    the    textile    industries    proper, 

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and  next  of  book  publishing  and  printing  and 
the  lighter  industries,  there  being  in  Phila- 
delphia looi  establishments  of  this  class, 
employing  74,946  women  and  75,744  men, 
with  15,645  classified  as  youths.  There  are, 
therefore,  fully  83,000  females  to  the  83,000 
males,  or  an  equal  number  of  each  sex.  This 
is  really  a  very  remarkable  change  from  the 
condition  of  things  ten  or  fifteen  years  since. 
It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  in  the  regularly 
compensated  employments  described  as  indus- 
trial, or  engaged  in  creative  labor  rather  than 
in  merely  routine  or  servile  labors,  that  there 
is  now  an  equal  number  of  women  and  girls 
receiving  fairly  liberal  payment,  at  least  in  all 
other  than  the  great  iron  works.  And  in  most 
cases  the  surroundings  are  made  pleasant  and 
attractive  and  the  working  girls  are  as  careful 
in  dress  and  manners  as  could  be  desired. 
While  not  paid  quite  as  much  for  their  labor 
as  men  and  boys  are  paid,  the  difference  is 
not  large  and  is  only  on  the  part  of  men  who 
have  positions  of  direction  or  of  management 
This  report  also  shows  what  great  improve- 
ments in  the  employment  and  comjDcnsation  of 
women    have    been    introduced   with    the   silk 


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and  silk-mixed  goods  manufactured.  Most  of 
these  mills  are  comparatively  new,  and  there 
are  over  seventy  in  Philadelphia  alone  and 
over  thirty  in  the  smaller  cities  and  towns  in 
the  Eastern  part  of  the  State.  This  report 
being  for  1891,  there  are  about  ten  thousand 
women  and  girls  reported  in  the  eighty-five 
silk  mills  then  existing.  It  is  remarkable  that 
the  American  methods  of  weaving  silk  are 
wholly  conducted  by  young  women,  while  the 
Lyons  silk  fabrics  are  woven  by  men  alone. 

A  detailed  list  of  the  silk  mills  and  those 
on  fine  mixed  goods  in  Philadelphia  is  given 
on  pages  106  to  118,  this  list  being  made 
from  the  return  of  the  factory  inspectors  for 
that  year,  and  generously  furnished  to  the 
Woman's  Committee  by  the  Lady  Inspectors. 
Further  lists  of  silk  mills  and  of  most  other 
fabrics  employing  women  in  the  Northeastern 
and  Northwestern  and  Northern  counties,  are 
also  given  on  pages  109  to  112.  These  new 
and  most  interesting  details  being  also 
furnished  by  the  Lady  Inspectors  for  the  year 
1 89 1.  A  recent  law  placed  the  inspection  of 
these  factories,  in  which  women  are  employed, 
in  the  hands  of  lady  inspectors,  and  they  have 


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discharged     their    duties     of    inspection    with 
remarkable  firmness  and  success. 

The  Woman's  Committee,  therefore,  performed 
a  most  valuable  service  in  bringing  out  the 
facts  as  to  the  industrial  employment  of  women 
and  girls.  Their  report  shows  the  most 
striking  change  in  this  respect,  and  that  even 
in  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny  City,  and  in  the 
iron  and  steel  works  and  glass  works  particu- 
larly, a  large  number  of  women  and  girls  are 
employed. 

In  Pittsburgh  and  Allegheny  alone  the 
numbers  reported  are  3842  women  and  17 17 
girls,  in  a  total  of  53,242  of  both  sexes  employed 
in  one  hundred  and  eighty-six  mills. 

In  Lancaster  and  York  Counties  it  is 
surprising  to  find  that  the  number  of  women  and 
girls  employed  in  the  greater  industries  is 
much  in  excess  of  the  number  of  men  and 
boys. 

The  next  division  of  this  report  includes  a 
summary  of  mission  work  in  the  churches, 
which  gives  some  new  and  valuable  state- 
ments of  the  leading  work  of  each  denomi- 
nation in  each  of  the  several  counties  of  the 
State. 


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Some  interesting  details  conclude  the  report, 
in  the  designation  of  the  literary  women  of 
the  State,  and  the  principal  works  of  which 
they  became   authors. 


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Review  of  the  Official  Minutes  of  the  Committee 
on  Woman's  Work. 


The  extent  and  completeness  of  the  plan  laid 
down  by  Mrs.  Lucas  for  representing  Woman's 
interests  at  the  World's  Fair  was  very  remark- 
able. A  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
Congressional  District  Delegates,  representing 
the  State  County  Committees,  held  at  Phila 
delphia,  November  30,  1892,  affords  the  most 
ample  and  instructive  proof  of  the  value  of 
Mrs.  Lucas'  direction  and  the  effectiveness  of 
her  plan  of  work. 

For  the  general  purpose  of  the  Woman's 
Exhibition,  at  Chicago,  the  State  appropriated 
$10,000,  with  a  further  appropriation  for  specific 
purposes  of  $5,500.  This  general  appropriation 
was  practically  controlled  by  Mrs.  Lucas,  who 
was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  ou  Woman's 
Work.     The  plan  was   so    large    and    generous 

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as    to    bring    into    active    co-operation   a    com- 
mittee in  each  county.     This  extension  of  the 
working  machinery,  as  it  may  be  called,  neces- 
sarily   involved    contributions    of    articles    and 
even  of  expenses  on   the   part  of   such  County 
Committees.     The  cost  of  gathering  the  results 
and   of   transmitting    and    putting    in    form    at 
Chicago,   was  the  principal    use    to    which  the 
appropriation  would    be    placed,   and  so  careful 
and  economical  had  the  management  been,  that 
up  to  December  i,  1892,  only  1 1,800  had  been 
spent  by  the  Woman's  State  Committee.     There 
had,  however,  been  a  diversion  of  $2,500  to  the 
Art  Committee,  $2,000  to  Miss  Garrett's  School, 
$1,000  to  the  Children's  House,  leaving  $8,200 
on  December  i,  1892.     These    facts    are    stated 
only  to  show  that  this  singularly  effective  and 
complete     organization    of    county    committees 
cost   very    little    indeed.     It    was    most    wisely 
directed  at  the  outset  and  most  honorably  con- 
ducted throughout. 

The  extended  report  of  this  final  meeting  of 
thirty-two  pages  must  be  consulted  to  show 
the  real  magnitude  of  the  work. 

Every  page  of  this  report  shows  the  original 
and    directive    force    exercised    by  Mrs.    lyucas. 


194 


She  presided  at   the    opening,  and,   indeed,  she 
directed  at  every  stage   of   the  proceedings  the 
succession    of    events.      She     called    on    each 
responsible    officer    in    turn,    first    those  of  the 
State     Commission,    and     next    those     of    the 
County  or  District   organizations,  bringing  out 
in  each  case  the  amount  and  character  of  the 
preparation  and  of   the  exhibits    to   be    made. 
This  report  itself  is  very  instructive,  because  it 
shows      most      remarkable     developments       of 
artistic,  professional  and   practical  skill    on   the 
part   of    prominent    women    in    the    State   in 
almost    every  county.     Any  one  who    had    no 
precedent  in  such    cases   would    see     here    the 
fullest    vindication,    both     of    the    purpose    to 
make  such    exhibits,   and    of    the    capacity   of 
the  women  of    the  State   to  do    honor  to   the 
occasion,    and      to     show      that      an     enlarged 
department  of   actual    science,   of    artistic    and 
professional  skill,  as  well    as  of    mere  skill   in 
the  industries  and  in  education,  actually  exists 
on  the    part  of    the    women  of    the    State   of 
Pennsylvania.     It  was  therefore  a  duty  to  elicit 
these  facts  and   to   make    them  a  part  of    the 
State's  exhibit,  and  it    is    not  too  much  to  say 
that    both   in  design    and     in    execution     this 


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work  is    to  be   credited    to    Mrs.   lyUcas   above 
all  others. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  official 
minutes  of  the  meeting  of  the  Congressional 
District  Delegates,  held  at  Philadelphia,  on 
November  30,  1892,  give  the  leading  points  of 
the  direction  exercised  by  Mrs.  Lucas : 

Mrs.  Harriet  A.  Lucas,  of  the  State 
Committee,  presided.  After  a  brief  opening 
address  by  Hon.  John  W.  Woodside,  Mrs.  Lucas 
then  introduced  the  Executive  Commissioner, 
Hon.  A.  B.  Farquhar,  who  made  a  short  address. 
Then  followed  the  introduction  of  Miss  Mary  E. 
McCandless  and  Mrs.  Yarrow.  After  the  roll- 
call  of  delegates  from  each  of  the  twenty-eight 
districts,  Mrs.  Lucas  informed  the  ladies  that 
reports  would  be  read  in  the  order  of  their 
Districts.  As  this  extremely  interesting  succes- 
sion of  reports  proceeded,  Mrs.  Lucas  explained 
the  especial  features  in  many  cases. 

Mrs.  Lucas  stated  that  Chester  County  would 
exhibit  the  Convent  work  of  that  County,  and 
it  was  explained  that  Philadelphia  would  not 
encroach  on  Chester  County's  exhibit  of  Convent 
work.  On  a  request  by  Mrs.  Wade,  of  Pitts- 
burg,   as    to   the   order   of  the   several   reports, 

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Mrs.  Lucas  informed  Mrs.  Wade  that  as  tlie 
business  of  the  meeting  was  to  hear  State 
reports,  the  whole  State  would  be  heard  from 
in  the  order  of  their  Districts. 

The  Chester  County  Auxiliary  Board  reported 
some  very  important  collections ;  also  the 
Delaware  County  Board,  which  had  sent  a 
carved  panel  to  decorate  the  Women's  Building 
at  Chicago,  and  a  block  of  Delaware  County 
Granite,  cut  in  the  shape  of  a  keystone. 

Mrs.  Lucas  spoke  of  the  letter  which  the 
Pope  had  sent  to  Mrs.  Potter  Palmer,  offering 
to  distribute  copies  of  it,  and  hoping  it  would 
induce  the  Convents  to  exhibit. 

A  report  from  Mrs.  Wilson,  for  Bucks  and 
Montgomery  Counties,  embodied  some  very 
important  statements,  showing  the  establish- 
ment of  many  institutions  in  those  counties, 
controlled  or  founded  by  them.  Other  eastern 
counties  were,  in  some  cases,  extremely  well 
represented,  while  the  mining  counties  of  the 
East  and  North  were  not  so  fortunate.  North- 
ampton County,  however,  was  rich  in  antiques 
and  Colonial  relics. 

Mrs.  Lucas  suggested  that  Monroe  County 
send   photographs  of  its  scenery. 

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From  the  Nintli  District,  important  reports 
of  silk  mills  and  other  industries  were  given. 
In  most  cases  the  personal  eflforts  of  the  ladies 
of  the  committee,  secured  the  desired  infor- 
mation. From  Lancaster  County,  the  artistic 
representation  was  the  statue  of  Maud  Muller, 
and  other  pieces  of  equal  merit  Also  from 
this  county  report  was  made  of  a  woman's 
owning  and  publishing  a  newspaper. 

Careful  and  complete  reports  were  made 
from  Schuylkill,  Lebanon,  Dauphin  and  Perry 
Counties.  It  was  reported  that  80,000  women 
were  represented  in  the  Fourteenth  Congres- 
sional District,  many  of  them  being  employed 
in  the  finer  and  more  valuable  industries. 

The  Lebanon  Industrial  Works  employ  1200 
women,  and  the  silk  factory  at  Harrisburg 
employs  350  women.  Dauphin  County  reports 
many  leading  charities,  and  Lebanon  County 
reports  an  art  school  and  a  school  of  art  needle- 
work, both  of  which  will  send  exhibits.  Large 
numbers  of  women  profitably  employed  were 
reported  from  all  these  counties. 

Various  reports  from  the  interior  counties, 
Bradford,  Susquehanna,  Wayne  and  others,  were 
next  made ;    in   some   cases  without  obtaining 

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miicli  to  exhibit  In  Potter  County  however, 
some  valuable  artistic  work  was  reported  and 
fine  needle-work,  also  embroideries.  From 
Clinton  County  a  silk  quilt  of  original  design, 
made  of  the  badges  of  the  Women's  Relief  Corps 
in  the  United  States. 

Mrs.  L/Ucas  suggested  that  from  agricultural 
counties,  the  committees  should  endeavor  to  have 
the  agricultural  work  of  women  exhibited. 

Columbia  County's  exhibit  in  the  Woman's 
Building  was  prepared  chiefly  of  silk  fabrics, 
done  wholly  by  women  employed  in  the 
Bloomsburg  Silk  Mill.  Sixty  women  employed 
in  that  mill  received  the  same  wages  as  men 
so  engaged,  the  work  being  managing  silk 
looms. 

A  volume  of  poems  was  reported,  composed 
by  Miss  Drinker,  of  Bloomsburg ;  also  designs 
for  decorative  work  in  laces,  carpets,  etc.,  by 
Miss  Wooley.  Miss  Wooley  will  design  a  carpet 
to  be  woven  by  a  woman  in  the  Bloomsburg 
Carpet  Mill.  The  Normal  School  of  Blooms- 
burg will  be  represented  by  twelve  girls  in  the 
joinery  or  carving  of  native  woods.  The 
Woman's  Auxiliary  of  Huntingdon,  report  a 
fine   stained   glass   window,    made   by   a  young 

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ladj.  For  Franklin  and  Juniata  Counties,  fine 
artistic  work  will  be  produced. 

For  Cumberland  and  Adams  Counties 
Mrs,  R.  H.  Thomas,  made  an  important  report, 
specifying  the  several  exhibitions  at  Atlanta, 
New  Orleans,  and  elsewhere,  and  declaring  their 
purpose  to  co-operate  in  making  the  World's  Fair 
of  1893  the  crowning  glory  for  all  World's  Fairs. 

From  Carlisle,  Cumberland  County,  valuable 
reports  of  Memorial  Buildings  erected  by 
women,  were  made. 

From  Cambria,  Blair  and  Somerset  Counties, 
interesting  reports  of  the  employment  of  women, 
were  made,  but  exhibits  were  not  important. 
A  report  of  active  efforts  in  Westmoreland, 
Armstrong  and  other  western  counties  was 
made.  Some  suggestion  being  made  that  the 
entire  collective  exhibits  could  hardly  find  room, 
Mrs.  Lucas  assured  the  committee  that  it  would 
be  received,  but  perhaps  not  collectively  placed. 

The  report  from  Allegheny  County  was 
especially  full  of  striking  illustrations  of  the 
advancement  of  Women's  Work.  The  exhibits 
will  be  artistic,  literary'  and  educational,  from  a 
large  number  of  the  bright  women  of  Pittsburgh 
and  Allegheny. 


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From  Washington  County  an  advanced  state 
of  educational  and  artistic  progress  was   made. 

Very  interesting  exhibits  were  reported  from 
the  remaining  counties,  much  exceeding  the 
anticipations  of  the  original  committee,  but 
apparently  fully  sustaining  Mrs.  Lucas'  original 
plan. 

Mrs.  IvUcas,  at  the  close  of  the  reports  of  the 
Congressional  Delegates,  commended  the  women 
of  the  counties  for  the  varied  and  admirable 
reports  they  had  made,  realizing  that  the  scat- 
tered nature  of  the  work  of  women  in  the 
counties  had  made  their  duties  in  many  respects 
arduous  and  complicated,  and  expressed  her 
satisfaction  at  the  variety  and  interest  of  the 
statistics  and  the  exhibits  offered. 

She  felt  that  the  plan  of  interesting  the 
ladies  of  the  counties  had  been  excellent,  inas- 
much as  it  had  brought  many  of  the  women  of 
the  State  together  in  one  common  interest ;  she 
expressed  her  hope  that  there  might  be  a  grand 
re-union  of  Pennsylvania  women  at  the  coming 
Exposition,  and  that  we  shall  all  meet  together 
in  our  State  Building  as  the  promoters  of 
woman's  interests  on  high  and  broad  grounds 
for  her  ftirther  advancement  and  success  in  life. 


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The  session  closed  witli  the  transaction  of 
many  items  of  executive  business  and  with 
some  important  directions  made  by  Mrs.  Lucas. 
She  directed  that  badges  be  secured  for  mem- 
bers of  committees,  and  a  sub-committee  was 
appointed  to  receive  any  such  designs.  She 
also  directed  that  two  books  be  collected  from 
each  authoress,  one  for  the  Library  in  the 
Woman's  Building,  the  other  in  the  State 
Building,  with  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  the 
authoress.  Further  directions  were  given  by 
her  that  the  bills  of  expenses  should  be  sent 
to  Philadelphia,  where  they  would  be  paid. 
She  also  proposed  to  originate  a  Colonial 
Memorial  Museum,  to  preser\'e  the  historic 
relics  that  might  be  exhibited.  An  account 
was  then  reported  by  her  Secretary  showing  a 
balance  of  $8,199  still  remaining  of  the  entire 
appropriation  of  $15,500,  the  larger  share  of 
which  had  been  given  to  special  committees  as 
before  stated.  This  was  almost  the  complete 
duty  of  direction  required  at  the  hands  of  the 
committee  originally,  and  the  subsequent  work 
was  confined  to  the  faithful  execution  of  the 
plans  so  perfected  by  the  direction  of 
Mrs.  Lucas. 


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Papers  in  Review  of  Mrs.  Lucas'  Work. 


The  personal  manuscripts  of  Mrs.  Lucas  are 
remarkable  for  the  evidence  they  afford  of  her 
persistent  efforts  to  secure  a  continuance  of  the 
aid  of  the  Government  to  the  development  of 
the  silk  industry  in  the  United  States. 

These  efforts  were  especially  directed  to  the 
obtainment  of  some  form  of  appropriation  in 
the  Session  of  1890-91.  She  addressed  leading 
members  of  both  the  House  and  Senate,  as  well 
as  the  chairman  of  the  leading  committees, 
with  the  most  conclusive  arguments,  writing  to 
Senators  Paddock  and  Allison.  She  had  also 
written  in  September,  1890,  to  Secretary  Blaine, 
as  well  as  to  Mr.  McKinley,  who  had  succeeded 
Judge  Kelley  as  Chairman  of  the  Ways  and 
Means  Committee.  The  principal  reason  for  the 
failure  of  these  efforts  was  the  open  and  deter- 
mined opposition   of   the  silk  manufacturers  of 


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New  Jersey,  who  preferred  to  rely  entirely 
upon  imported  raw  silk,  and  who  did  not 
content  themselves  with  passively  awaiting  the 
growth  of  silk  in  the  United  States  ;  they 
opposed  such  growth  to  the  best  of  their 
ability  at  all  times. 

Mrs.  Lucas  had  no  interest  whatever  in  any 
partial  development,  or  in  the  progress  of  the 
silk  weaving  alone  without  benefit  to  the 
farmers  and  producing  interests  of  the  United 
States,  and  her  broad-minded  purpose  was 
thwarted  by  the  narrowness  and  greed  of  these 
Paterson  silk  manufacturers  in  the  first 
instance. 

Another  and  perhaps  equal  reason  for  the 
failure  of  Congress  to  appropriate  in  these  later 
years,  1890  to  1892,  was  the  inordinate  demands 
of  Managers  of  the  Silk  Culture  office  at 
Washington,  of  the  Bureau,  as  it  hoped  to  be, 
for  the  Promotion  of  Silk  Culture  formed  in 
the  Department  of  Agriculture. 

A  complication  of  offices  with  excessive 
salaries  was  to  be  established  there  at  an  annual 
cost  of  $150,000,  and  bills  appropriating  this 
sum,  with  an  elaborate  detail  of  services, 
were  reported    at    each  Session   from    1888    to 

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1892.  They  could  not  be,  and  ought  not  to 
have  been,  agreed  to  by  Congress,  and  as  the 
Department  would  accept  no  less,  the  whole 
system  fell,  and  the  work  has  been  abandoned 
by  that  Department.  A  moderate  and  proper 
course  of  action  on  the  part  of  that  Depart- 
ment would  undoubtedly  have  secured  the 
approval  of  Congress. 


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The  Silk  Exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair. 


It  was  the  especial  desire  of  Mrs.  Lucas, 
both  for  herself  as  a  Directress  of  the  World's 
Fair,  and  for  the  Women's  Silk  Culture  Associa- 
tion, to  secure  a  working  exhibit  illustrating 
the  production  of  silk  from  cocoons  and  the 
weaving  of  silk  fabrics. 

There  was  much  difficulty  in  obtaining  any 
specific  appropriation  for  this  purpose,  and  still 
more  difficulty  in  obtaining  the  proper  space 
for  the  loom  and  reels.  All  these  difficulties 
were  overcome,  however,  the  small  space  offered 
them  in  the  Women's  Building  was  applied  to 
another  purpose  and  a  much  larger  space  was 
given  them  in  the  Agricultural  Building,  about 
i8  X  30  feet,  in  a  very  favorable  position.  This 
space  has  been  very  handsomely  decorated, 
rich  flags,  woven  by  this  Association,  and  a 
very  effective  silk    reel    is    constantly  at  work, 

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with  their  Jacquard  loom,  weaving  ribbon 
souvenirs,  which  are  readily  sold  to  the 
visitors. 

The  interest  in  the  reeling,  especially,  is 
very  great,  and  crowds  are  at  all  times  in 
attendance ;  it  has,  therefore,  been  very  satis- 
factory to  the  Managers  of  the  Building  and 
instructive  to  the  public. 

The  appropriation  obtained  by  them  was 
^i,ooo  from  the  State  appropriation  of  $300,000, 
and  this  sum  would  have  paid  the  attendants 
about  to  the  middle  of  August;  but  so  liberal 
has  been  the  purchase  of  souvenirs  that  the 
profit  on  these  will  suffice  to  carry  the  whole 
exhibit  through  to  the  end  of  the  Fair. 
Miss  Ford  is  entitled  to  great  credit  for  her 
skillful  management  of  the  questions  as  to  the 
rooms  themselves,  and  her  intelligent  manage- 
ment of  the  whole  exhibit  after  its  final 
location  in  the  Agricultural  Building. 

There  was  much  discussion  at  the  several 
meetings  at  the  State  Board  of  World's  Fair 
Managers  as  to  the  introduction  of  the  Exhibit 
prepared  by  the  Women's  Silk  Culture  Associa- 
tion into  the  State  Building.  The  Exhibits  of 
Women's  Work  were  so  numerous  and  occupied 

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so  mucli  space  that  there  were  various  questions 
raised  and  objections  made  to  giving  the 
necessary  space  for  the  machinery  of  the  Silk 
Exhibit.  Commissioner  Farquhar  took  pains  to 
obtain  the  opinions  of  the  ladies  of  the  Com- 
mission, and  to  adjust  the  matter  in  accordance 
with  their  wishes. 

Ultimately  a  better  opportunity,  and  in  one 
sense  a  more  appropriate  one,  was  offered  in  the 
Agricultural  Building,  thus  making  it,  in  a  great 
degree,  National, 

Several  of  the  correspondents  of  Mrs.  Lucas 
spoke  with  so  much  energy  in  behalf  of  this 
Exhibit  that  it  would  have  been  a  grateful 
recognition  to  quote  their  letters  here;  but  it 
may  be  sufficient  to  say  that  the  warm  interest 
felt  in  it  was  all  justified,  both  by  its  successful 
location  in  the  National  Agricultural  Building 
and  by  its  attractiveness  and  value  there. 


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Review  by  Mrs.  Lucas  of  the  Work  of  the  Silk 

Association,  as  Embodied  in  a  Memorial 

to  Congress,  1891. 


To  the  Honorable  Members  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  at  Washington  : 
The  history  of  the  introduction  of  Silk 
Culture  into  the  United  States,  by  the  Woman's 
Silk  Culture  Association,  whose  office  is  at 
No.  1224  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  is  not 
unfamiliar  to  this  Body,  since  in  January,  1885, 
a  Committee  from  this  Association  presented 
to  your  House  a  National  flag,  prepared  from 
the  pure  American  product;  and  following  that 
presentation  made  application  to  your  Hon. 
Body  for  an  appropriation  to  the  Agricul- 
tural Department  for  the  propagation  and 
protection  of  this  industry ;  thus  enabling 
this    Association    to    become  participants   with 


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the  Agricultural  Department,  and  more  readily 
pursue  the  object  in  view. 

The  bill  in  which  this  presentation  was 
made  was  successful  in  securing  your  aid; 
and  in  the  following  year  an  appropriation 
was  made  to  the  Woman's  Silk  Culture  Asso- 
ciation of  l5,ooo  per  annum,  since  which, 
during  four  years,  we  have  been  able  to 
greatly  enlarge  the  scope  of  our  work  (acting 
at  the  same  time  in  perfect  harmony  and 
accord  with  the  Department  of  Agriculture)  and 
embodying  in  our  work  the  distributing  of 
mulberry  trees  for  the  purpose  of  the  industry 
to  every  part  of  the  United  States. 

As  the  growth  of  trees,  giving  to  the  cul- 
turist,  the  necessary  product  for  the  food  ot 
the  silk-worm  is  the  primary  and  most 
important  division  of  this  new  industry-,  we 
recommend  this  to  your  consideration  as  a 
special  branch  of  our  work. 

We  come  before  the  Representatives  of  our 
Government  in  an  appeal  for  a  continuance  of 
that  confidence  in  our  effort,  which  your 
former  appropriations  to  us  indicated,  and 
of  which  we  have  in  the  last  year  been 
deprived,    by    the     action    of    your     Body    in 


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giving    the    whole    sum    to    the     Agricultural 
Department. 

It  is  the  desire  of  this  Association  to  con- 
tinue its  efforts  until  the  close  of  the  Columbian 
Exposition,  with  a  hope  that  that  great  National 
event  may  give  us  an  extended  opportunity 
to  form  a  more  thoroughly  National  Associa- 
tion than  has  yet  existed. 

We  have  sent  out  40,000  mulberry  trees  to 
every  part  of  the  United  States. 

We  have  made  exhibits  at  forty-seven 
different  Exhibitions,  both  State,  National, 
and  Foreign. 

We  have  had  upwards  of  50,000  corres- 
pondents ;  have  received  at  our  office  and 
instructed  thousands  of  visitors. 

Have  purchased  12,000  pounds  of  cocoons, 
which  we  have  reeled  into  marketable  silk, 
returning  in  money  to  the  women  and  children 
of  the  couutr>',  for  the  product  of  their 
labor. 

We  have  presented  American  flags  to  our 
own  State  Legislature,  to  the  National  Congress, 
to  Mexico  and  every  Republic  of  South  and 
Central  America,  to  the  cities  of  Atlanta, 
Albany,   Boston   and    Philadelphia,  and   to    the 


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English       Teclinical     School      at     Manchester, 
England. 

We  have  sent  out  thousands  of  Instruction 
Books  in  the  Art  of  Silk  Culture  to  every  part 
of  the  country. 

We  have  turned  the  American  cocoon  into 
every  silk  fabric  manufactured  in  the  United 
States  to  test  its  quality ;  from  this  material 
over  two  thousand  yards  of  silk  fabrics  have 
thus  found  a  channel  for  the  raw  material. 

To  carry  on  this  work  we  have  had  one 
paid  Superintendent  at  $570  a  year,  the  rent  of 
two  rooms,  one  as  an  office,  the  other  as  a 
reel  room  or  filature,  at  a  rental  of  $750  a  year, 
with  incidentals  for  printing  and  publishing. 

You  will  thus  see  we  are  the  faithful  and 
economic  allies  of  the  Government,  and  we 
demand  from  you,  as  chivalric  Statesmen,  that 
you  will  continue  to  us  our  former  appro- 
priation of  $5,000  a  year,  and  that  you  grant 
us  this  appropriation,  with  a  recommendation 
for    its   continuance. 


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[From  the  Congressional  Record,  January  24,  1885.] 

Native  American  Silk  Flags  Presented  to  Both 
Houses  of  Congress. 


Senate. 

Washington,  D.  C,  January  23. — In  the 
Senate  to-day  the  Chair  laid  before  the 
chamber  a  memorial  of  the  Women's  Silk 
Culture  Association  of  the  United  States. 
The  memorial  recites  the  great  success  through 
their  efforts  of  the  work  of  Silk  Culture  in 
the  homes  of  this  country,  and  craves  the 
good-will,  influence  and  aid  of  Congress  in  the 
development  of  an  industry  so  important  to 
the  women  and  children  of  the  United  States. 
The  memorialists  beg  the  Senate  to  accept, 
with  their  memorial,  a  truly  American  national 
flag,  made  of  silk  raised  in  American  homes, 
by  American  women  and  children,  reeled,  spun, 


dyed,  woven  and  mounted  in  Philadelphia. 
The  flag,  which  is  a  large  and  handsome  one, 
was  borne  to  the  desk,  and  was  the  subject 
of  much  admiration,  both  from  the  floor  and 
the  galleries. 

Mr.  Beck  oSered  a  resolution  expressing 
the  high  appreciation  and  thanks  of  the 
Senate  for  the  flag,  and  admiration  for  the 
efforts  and  success  of  the  Women's  Silk  Cul- 
ture Association  in  their  patriotic  purpose  to 
ameliorate  the  industrial  condition  of  their 
countrywomen,  and  to  enlarge  and  diversify 
female   employment   in   the    United  States. 

Mr.  Morgan,  in  a  feeling  and  happy  manner, 
welcomed  the  flag,  with  all  that  it  meant,  to 
the  hall  of  the  Senate. 

Mr.  Dawes  congratulated  the  country  on 
the  great  advance  made  in  silk  culture  in  so 
short  a  time,  it  being  only  a  few  years  since 
the  work  was  undertaken. 

Mr.  Beck's  resolution  was  then  agreed  to. 

House  of  Representatives. 

When  the  House  met  to-day  a  handsome 
silk  American  flag  ornamented  the  wall  behind 
the    Speaker's    chair,     and    after    the    reading 

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of  the  Journal,  the  Speaker  laid  before  the 
House  a  communication  from  the  Philadelphia 
Women's  Silk  Culture  Association  of  the 
United  States,  tendering  the  flag  to  the  House 
of  Representatives,  and  bespeaking  for  it  a 
place  in  the  Hall  of  the  National  Government. 
Mr.  Kelley  (Pa.),  offered  a  resolution,  which 
was  adopted,  accepting  the  flag  prepared  for 
the  use  of  the  House,  and  presented  by  the 
Women's  Silk  Culture  Association  of  the 
United  States,  and  declaring  that  the  excel- 
lence of  the  fabric  and  perfection  of  colors  it 
displays  afford  evidence  of  the  remarkably 
rapid  development  of  the  culture  and  manu- 
facture of  silk  by  the  American  people,  and 
that  the  House  will  cause  the  flag  to  be 
displayed  within  the  halls  of  the  House. 


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Presentation     of     Silk     Flags     to     the     Pan- 
Americans,  Washington,    April  ii,  1890. 


A  goodly  company,  comprising  the  entire 
number  of  the  delegates  from  South  and 
Central  America  and  Mexico,  and  the  Hon. 
Secretaries,  Rusk,  Tracy  and  Windom,  met  a 
committee  from  the  Women's  Silk  Culture 
Association  of  the  United  States,  and  a  large 
number  of  Washington  ladies  and  gentlemen, 
to  witness  the  presentation  of  seventeen 
American  flags,  one  to  each  free  State  repre- 
sented in  the  Pan-American  Congress. 

Professor  Boswell,  of  Dickinson  College,  pre- 
sided, and  after  a  few  well-chosen  remarks, 
introduced  Mr.  Beaseley,  who  made  a  fitting 
and  patriotic  address. 

Mrs.  John  Lucas,  President  of  the  Women's 
Silk  Culture  Association,  then  made  the  pre- 
sentation address,  alluding  to  agriculturists,  and 
suggesting  silk  culture  as  a  prominent  and 
practical  one  for  the  agriculturists  all  over  the 


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Middle,  Southern  and  Western  States.  She 
referred  to  the  lamentable  igiiorance  of  the 
people  on  the  subject  generally,  and  suggested 
a  small  duty  on  raw  material,  which  could 
only  increase  the  value  of  silk  goods  a  few 
cents  per  yard.  This  would  form  a  splendid 
revenue  with  which  to  establish  in  our  country 
educational  and  experimental  stations,  where 
silk  culture  could  be  scientifically  illustrated, 
as  it  is  in  European  nations. 

She  stated  that  no  former  efforts  had  been 
made,  when  surrounding  conditions  were  as  at 
the  present  time,  a  nation  rich,  progressive, 
advancing  in  taste  and  art,  in  elegance  and 
wealth,  and  demanding  the  best  and  finest  of 
goods.  There  should  be  silk  manufactturing 
communities,  having  not  less  than  four  hundred 
mills,  with  sixty  millions  of  capital,  and  per- 
haps 250,000  workingmen  and  women,  all 
turning  out  the  golden  threads  of  silk  for  the 
use  and  adornment  of  the  race.  $25,000,000 
now  annually  leave  this  country  for  raw  silk 
as  raw  material.  No  past  condition  offered 
such  a  picture. 

In  closing  she  said :  "  Gentlemen  of  the 
Sunny  South,  bear  with  you  these  emblems  of 

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the  success  of  our  Nation.  Place  them  in  your 
Legislative  Halls,  and  ever  regard  them  as 
tokens  of  one  hundred  years  of  national  pros- 
perity of  a  government  '  of  the  people,  for  the 
people,  and  by  the  people,'  and  the  devotion  of 
a  little  band  of  women  to  the  advancement 
of  home  production  and  industrial    education." 

Response  of  General  Bolet  Peraza,  Delegate  of 

Venezuela. 
Ladies : 

I  thank  you  in  my  own  name  and  that  of 
my  colleagues  for  the  gift  we  have  just 
received  at   your  hands. 

This  is  the  emblem  of  your  country,  the 
glorious  ensign  of  this  great  American  nation, 
with  whom  our  respective  Republics  have  just 
sealed  a  family  compact. 

Upon  reaching  these  shores,  seven  months 
since,  that  flag  greeted  us  as  strangers ;  to-day 
it  bids  us  farewell  as  brothers. 

It  reminds  us  also  of  the  origin  of  our  inde- 
pendence, because  it  was  those  stars  and  stripes 
that  dazzled  the  imagination  of  our  indomi- 
table grandsires,  and  which  imbued  their 
patriotism  with  the  desire  to  gain  for  their 
sons    the    same    liberties    the    fathers    of    your 

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sovereignty  acquired  for  you.  And  to  make 
this  emblem  still  more  valuable  and  significant 
in  our  hands  you  have  endowed  it  with  the 
prestige  of  your  labor,  which  can  be  compared 
only  to  that  of  the  indefatigable  insect  who, 
by  his  labor  clothes  in  splendor  all  the  world. 
You,  generous  Ladies,  have  founded  a  new 
and  rich  industry  for  your  country.  The  day 
will  come  when  the  United  States  will  compete 
in  the  production  of  silks  with  China,  with 
Persia,  with  France  and  with  Italy,  and  they 
will  owe  it,  in  great  part  to  you,  who  have 
given  hospitable  shelter  to  the  modest  worm, 
who  have  nurtured  it  with  assiduous  care,  and 
who,  by  your  devotion  have  induced  it  to  give 
you  its  silver  threads,  its  golden  skeins,  which 
you  have  woven  for  your  brothers  of  Latin- 
America  into  these  flags,  emblematic  of  the 
heroism  of  the  men  and  the  noble  worth  of 
the  women  of  this  great  people. 

To  our  homes  will  we  carry  this  precious 
gift  of  yours,  and  there  will  we  place  it  by 
the  side  of  our  country's  flag,  united  and  con- 
nected as  are  already  the  interests  and  the 
destinies  of  all  the  free  countries  that  brighten 
the  continent  of  Columbus. 


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Address    of   Mrs.  I,ucas    at  the   Convention  of 
the  Saint  George's   Union. 


Oswego,  N.  Y.,  April,  1891. 

The  fifth  toast,  "Women  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century,"  was  most  eloquently  responded  to 
by  Mrs.  John  I^ucas,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Her 
address  occupied  twenty  minutes,  and  the 
audience  listened  with  deepest  attention.  It 
was  replete  with  biblical  and  historical 
reference. 

Mrs.  lyucas  said  she  would  be  recreant  to 
the  faith  she  had  in  the  purity  and 
permanence  of  the  progress  of  women  during 
the  nineteenth  century,  and  the  elements  that 
have  led  to  it,  should  she  hesitate  to  defend 
her  position  and  admit  her  real  emancipation 
from  the  thralls  that  had  environed  her  during 
many  ages  of  the  world's  history.  To  trace 
and  unravel   the  mysterious  manner   in   which 


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slie  was  given  to  man,  sliows  conclusively 
that  the  Divine  will  was  "  as  part  of  man, 
bone  of  his  bone,"  that  man  should  be 
satisfied  with  her  ;  that  he  should  accord  to 
her  the  same  honor  and  care  that  he  would 
lavish  on  his  own  body;  co-equal  with  him 
in  honor  and  power — but  looking  to  him  as 
he  to  her,  and  bound  to  him — links  in  the 
great  chain  of  common  himianity.  Man,  the 
projector  of  a  greater  and  higher  form  of 
creation ;  woman,  the  mother  of  all. 

The  speaker  touched  at  length  on  the  early 
history  of  woman  as  we  receive  it  in  the 
Mosaic  history,  as  proof  of  the  honor  and 
dignity  to  which  she  was  called,  while  yet 
God  dealt  directly  and  personally  with  His 
chosen  people.  From  history,  Mrs.  Lucas 
quoted  Helen  of  Troy,  Andromache,  Lucille, 
and  even  Cleopatra,  as  examples  of  woman's 
love  and  devotion  not  to  be  forgotten. 
Coming  down  to  the  Christian  era  she  referred 
to  the  martyrs  among  women.  Down  among 
the  ages  we  find  a  gradual  emancipation  of 
women  going  on  until  the  Renaissance.  After 
this  period,  and  with  the  rise  of  English 
learning  and  literature,  we  find  stately  Elizabeth 


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on  the  English  throne,  grappling  with  such 
problems  as  shook  the  religions  of  the  world, 
and  opened  unto  us  a  reformation  from  the 
circles  that  had  seared  and  tarnished  the  purity 
of  the  Apostolic  Church. 

To  her  wonderful  force  and  intellectual 
ability  we  owe  this  blood-bought  and  priceless 
gift — a  pure  gift.  Through  the  line  of  litera- 
ture and  art,  as  it  developed  in  this  golden 
age,  woman,  as  author  and  artist,  destined  to 
live  forever.  The  speaker  alluded  to  the  life 
of  women  in  the  home,  in  the  factories,  in 
social  and  the  lower  walks  of  humble  home-life, 
in  all  of  which  she  casts  her  strength  and  influ- 
ence, and  moulds  the  race. 

Mrs.  Lucas  alluded  to  a  phalanx  of  notable 
women — Lady  Blessington,  Rosa  Bonheur, 
Mary  Wortley  Montague,  George  Eliot,  Mrs. 
Browning,  Katharine  Tait,  Charlotte  Bronte, 
Siddons,  Rachel,  Jenny  Lind,  Patti,  Scalchi 
as  examples  of  women  in  the  fields  of  literature 
and  the  stage.  As  explorers  she  mentioned 
Lady  Baker  and  the  indomitable  Mrs.  Peary. 

Speaking  of  women  in  the  branches  of 
industry,  Mrs.  Lucas  said  that  in  Massachusetts 
statistics    show    that    women    have    secured    a 


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footing  in  4,467  branches  of  industry.  The 
last  census  in  Massachusetts  reported  932,884 
women  and  1,009,257  men  employed  in  gainful 
occupations.  Women  working  for  lower 
wages  than  men  may  have  affected  these 
numbers,  and  it  is  well  for  great  manufacturers 
to  see  this.  Let  not  women  become  the 
disturbing  factors  in  upsetting  the  old  condition 
that  man  is  the  bread-winner,  and  through 
avarice  and  false  economic  views  use  the  low- 
wage  woman  to  supplant  the  man,  leaving  him 
to  periods  of  idleness  and  thus  to  mischief. 
The  rule  should  be  "equal  wages  for  equal 
work,"  Not  doing  this,  tends  to  destroy  home- 
life,  and  what  weakens  the  home  undermines 
the  national  prosperity. 

The  speaker  paid  a  fitting  tribute  to 
England's  noble  Queen  and  the  advancement 
that  religion,  learning,  art,  science,  authorship, 
domestic  and  political  economy  have  made 
during-  her  reis^n.  Mrs,  Lucas  referred  to  the 
available  influence  and  ramifications  of  the 
World's  Fair,  as  bringing  forward  the  united 
results  of  brain  and  muscle  of  both  sexes  and 
their  stimulating  development.  She  spoke  of 
the    appointment    of   a   Woman's    Board — two 


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representatives  from  every  State  and  Territory 
in  the  Union,  on  the  Fair's  Commission,  and 
concluded  her  address  as  follows :  "  You, 
Gentlemen,  as  manufacturers  and  masters,  do 
her  justice  ;  do  not  withhold  a  faithful  record 
of  her  labor,  when  appealed  to  ;  give  her  of 
the  '  fruit  of  her  hand '  and  let  her  have 
'  honest  praise  within  the  gates ' — for  as  long 
as  the  stars  shine  and  the  rivers  run  she  will 
be  the  companion  and  the  comforter  of  man.' " 
At  the  conclusion  of  Mrs.  lyucas'  address 
she  was  warmly  applauded. 


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St.  Jolin-in-tlie- Wilderness. 


From   a    Manuscript    in     the  Handwriting    of 
Mrs.  Harriet  Anne  Lucas. 


In  the  year  1850  a  property  was  bought  at 
the  village  of  Gibbsboro',  in  Camden  County, 
New  Jersey,  and  a  manufactory  of  chemicals 
and  paints  started  by  Mr.  John  Lucas.  In  1856 
the  family  of  John  Lucas  removed  to  this  place, 
and  there  being  no  place  of  public  worship,  at 
once  connected  themselves  with  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  Haddonfield,  under  the 
ministration  of  Rev.  Mr.  Hallowell,  and  started 
a  Union  Sunday-school  at  the  little  school- 
house  in  the  village.  During  the  years  that 
'followed,  various  denominations,  especially  the 
Methodists  and  Baptists,  held  service  on  the 
Sabbath  afternoons  at  the  school-house,  which 
fluctuated  in  interest  and  attendance,  but  never 
grew  into  a  body,  which  seemed  animated  with 

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a  desire  to  establish  anything  permanent,  and 
from  year  to  year  no  eflfort  was  ever  put  forth 
to  make  the  services,  occasionally  held,  either 
instructive  or  lasting  in  their  effects  by 
the  establishment  of  a  place  of  public  wor- 
ship. 

At  one  time  Mr.  John  Lucas  introduced  into 
this  Union  Sabbath  School  an  Episcopal  form 
of  service,  but  after  a  season,  finding  it  dis- 
tasteful to  many  (even  to  the  fact  that  one  old 
itinerant  minister  always  remained  outside  the 
school-house  until  after  the  creed  was  repeated, 
because  "he  did  not  believe  in  worshiping  the 
Virgin  Mary,")  and  not  wishing  to  place  any 
of  our  views  before  the  people,  if  not  acceptable 
to  them,  this  Episcopal  form  was  abandoned, 
and  with  it  Mr.  Lucas  resigned  from  the  super- 
intendence of  the  Sabbath  School.  Left  to 
their  own  desires,  but  with  the  regular  attend- 
ance of  the  family,  the  school  passed  through 
many  variations,  but  was  never  abandoned. 

Thus,  after  a  quarter  of  a  century  of  sacri- 
ficing, in  a  measure,  our  own  principles  to  the 
wills  of  others,  and  suffering  the  privations  of 
the  precious  ritual  and  teachings  of  our  beloved 
church,  we   as  a  family  felt  animated  to  set  up 


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our  altar  in  the  midst  of  these  people,  who 
thus  far  had  never  made  any  movement 
towards  such  an  end  for  themselves,  and  in 
1 88 1  a  lot  was  selected  and  efforts  made  to 
obtain  it;  but  legal  difficulties  arising,  a  whole 
year  passed  before  it  was  decided  where  the 
church  should  be  built.  Finally  a  "  parcel  "  of 
land  was  given  by  Mr.  John  Lucas,  and  a  sub- 
scription started  by  him  of  $i,ooo.  Other 
subscriptions  to  the  amount  of  $1,366.36  were 
collected.  Plans  were  submitted  by  Mr.  J. 
Durang,  and  Mr.  W.  D.  Hewitt,  Architects  ;  on 
August  I,  1882,  the  contract  was  given  to 
Wm.  Bemhouse,  on  the  plans  submitted  by 
Mr.  W.  D.  Hewitt. 

In  looking  back  over  twenty  odd  years  of 
union  effort  in  this  little  village,  I  am  led  to 
feel  we  have  neglected  a  sacred  duty  and  made 
shipwreck  of  many  blessings,  which  might  have 
fallen  upon  this  people  and  our  own  family,  in 
evading  our  duty  and  failing  to  rely  upon  the 
promises  of  God;  of  hesitating  to  plant  the 
Church  of  God,  and  allowing  the  vacillating 
opinions  and  desires  of  men  to  set  barriers  in 
the  way  of  truth,  and  that  fixedness  of  purpose 
and  principle  which  are  the  outgrowth  of  truth 


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If  our  Church  is  the  exponent  of  truth  and  the 
one  Apostolic  Church,  dictated  by  Christ  him- 
self, why  hesitate  to  plant  it  everywhere  ?  The 
seed  once  planted  in  faith,  can  never  die,  and 
thus  through  sacrifices  and  real  trials  have  we 
learned  our  duty,  which  properly  sought  for, 
would  have  been  made  plain  long  years 
before. 

On  Sabbath  afternoon,  October  i,  1882,  the 
comer-stone  of  the  Church  of  St.  John's  in  the 
Wilderness  was  laid  by  the  Right  Rev.  Bishop 
John  Scarborough,  assisted  by  other  clergymen  ; 
the  Bishop  and  the  clergy  with  the  Sabbath 
School,  met  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  John  Lucas, 
and  thence  walked  to  the  church  grounds, 
singing  "The  Church's  One  Foundation  is 
Jesus  Christ  the  Lord."  Very  interesting  ser- 
vices followed  in  the  presence  of  a  large  number 
of  people,  and  an  offertory  of  about  $2,488.14 
was  made.  In  the  box  placed  in  the  corner- 
stone was  deposited,  one  copy  of  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer,  one  copy  of  the  Holy  Bible, 
one  copy  of  the  Hymnal  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  one  copy  of  the  services  of 
the  laying  of  the  comer-stone,  one  copy  each  of 
"The  Churchman,"  "The  Guardian,"  and  "The 

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Episcopal  Register,"  one  copy  of  "The  West 
Jersey  Press,"  some  small  coins,  and  tlie  follow- 
ing statement : 

After  a  residence  of  many  years  among  the  people 
of  the  village  of   Gibbsboro',   in    the  State  of   New 
Jersey,  during  which  time  the  number  of  inhabitants 
has  materially  increased,    and  yet  no  church  edifice 
rears  its  walls  in  our  midst,  and  having  in   remem- 
brance the  great   debt  we  owe  to   Almighty  God  for 
his   continued  goodness  to  us  as  a  people,  inasmuch 
as  He  has  blessed  us  with  peace  and  prosperity,  and 
continued    our    lives    in  health  ;    has    kept    us    from 
great  evils  ;  it  seems  fitting  to  rear  to  his  honor  and 
glory,  a    temple  for  the    worship  of  Almighty  God, 
according  to    the  rites  and   usages  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  America.     To  this  end,  and  with 
a  firm  reliance  on  the  help  and  blessing  of  Almighty 
God,  through    his  Son,  Jesus  Christ,   the  effort  has 
been  made  and  many  have  given  of  their  means  to  the 
Church  fund. 

Faithfully  relying  on  the  sure  promises  of  God, 
that  he  will  give  His  holy  presence  to  this  temple 
and  consecrate  every  effort  here  made  to  draw  the 
hearts  of  men  and  women  unto  him,  we  name  this 
Church  St.  John's-in-The-Wilderness,  that  like  as  he 
in  the  weary  waste  and  among  sinful  men,  pro- 
claimed, "The  Lamb  of  God  that  taketh  away  the 
sins  of  the  world,"  the  coming  of  whom  was  to  bring 
grace  and  truth  ;  so  may  the  mission  of  this  holy 
church  be  a  voice  in  the  wilderness,  crying,  "Make 
straight  the  way  of  the   Ivord,"  and  become  to  the 

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careless  and  sinning  a  "Light  shining  in  darkness," 
calling  them  to  better  life,  and  to  higher  and  holier 
purposes,  a  very  promise  of  good  things  to  come. 

Signed,  October  i,  1882. 
John  Lucas,  Harriet  Anne  Lucas, 

Mary  C.  Lucas,  John  Thomas  Lucas, 

William  Edward  Lucas,     Mary  W.  Lucas,  his  wife, 
H.  Anne  Lucas,  James  F.  Lucas, 

Harry  S.  Lucas,  Albert  Lucas, 

Ellen  Bown  Lucas,  Joseph  Wilson  Lucas, 

Barton  Lucas,  Robert  Suddards  Lucas, 

Francis  Ethel  Lucas,  Elizabeth  Sanders  Lucas. 

Miss  A.  Elizabeth  Wright, 

Architect,  William  D.  Hewitt. 
Builder,  William  Bernshouse, 

Services  performed  by 
Right  Rev.  Bishop  Scarborough,  of  New  Jersey. 
Rev.  Gustavus  Murray,  of  Haddonfield. 
Rev.  R.  Moses,  Rev.  Mr.  Reilly. 

List  of  contributors  : 

Mr.  William  H.  Lucas,  $100  00 

Mr.  William  Waterall,  100  00 

Mr.  George  W.  Childs,  100  00 

Mr.  James  Moore,  200  00 

Mr.  J.  Thomas  Lucas,  100  00 

Mr.  Alfred  Lucas,  100  00 

Proceeds  of  Fair  at  Lakeside  300  00 

Proceeds  of  Tableaux,  68  00 

Mrs.  John  Orne,  25  00 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Lucas,  25  00 

Miss  Carrie  Lucas,  25  00 

Mr.  J.  T.  Clark,  25  00 

Mr.  Robert  Smith.  15  00 

Mr.  Lewis  Risture,  10  00 

Mr.  Ed.  Rudderow,  5  00 

*30 


Mr.  Robt.  Hamilton,  $    5  oo 

Mr.  Chas.  Potter,  5  0° 

Mr.  Albert  Sayers,  5  00 

Mr.  C.   Chalten,  5  00 

Mary  Hartner,  6  00 

Mrs.  Fred  Elliott,  25  00 

Mrs.  James  F.  Lucas,  25  00 

Mrs.  Ed.  T.  Lucas,  25  00 

Mrs.  Wm.  Rank,  20  00 

Mr.  Jos.  Moore,  10  00 

Sunday-school,  18  75 

Kate  Hartner,  5  00 

Annie  Haines,  5  °o 

Mrs.  C.  D.  Thum,  5  °° 

Mrs.  C.  Stoddart,  5  00 

Wm.  Burk,  i  °° 

Mite   Box,  3  81 
Alexander  Hamilton,  hauling,  valued,  15  00 

Albert  Lucas,  10  00 

John  Stack.  10  00 

Harry  S.  Lucas,  10  00 

H.  Annie  Lucas,  10  00 

Jno.  W.  Snowden,  10  00 

At  laying  of  the  Corner  Stone,  45  58 
Including  $1,000  from  John  Lucas  the  ofiFerings  were 
$2,488.14,  as  shown  above. 


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In  Memoriam. 


HARRIET  ANNE  LUCAS. 


This  most  appropriate  and  earnest 
tribute  to  Mrs.  Lucas'  higli  character  and 
noble  works,  bas  been  circulated  largely 
among  ber  friends,  and  bas  elicited 
expressions  among  ber  friends  wbicb  are 
bere  transcribed  and  to  some  extent 
condensed  as  an  appropriate  part  of  this 
more  permanent  form  of  Memorial  to  ber 
bonor. 


A  Sermon 
in  remembrance  of 

HARRIET  ANNE  LUCAS 

preached  in 

Tlie  Churcli  of  St.  John's-in-the-Wildemess 

Gibbsboro',  N.  J. 

On  St.  Jolin  Baptist's  Day,  1893 

by  tlie 

Rev.  James  S.  Stone,  D.D. 

Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Philadelphia 


"Her  Grace  is  Above  Gold." 

Ecclesiastes  vii :  19. 


Such  is  the  worth,  says  the  Son  of  Sirach, 
of  the  Wise  and  Good  Woman ;  and  so  impressed 
was  that  ancient  man  with  the  blessing  of 
such  a  woman  to  her  husband  that  again  and 
again,  in  the  course  of  his  book,  he  pens  lines 
which  illustrate  and  expand  the  thought  of 
our  text.  There  seems  to  be  experience  as  well 
as  philosophy  in  words  such  as  these:  "The 
grace  of  a  wife  delighteth  her  husband,"  and 
"A  silent  and  loving  woman  is  a  gift  of  the 
Lord."  The  writer,  as  though  he  had  before 
him  a  precious  memory,  tenderly  alludes  to 
"the  beauty  of  a  good  wife  in  the  ordering  of 
her  house,"  to  "the  beauty  of  the  face  in  ripe 
age,"  and  to  "the  fair  feet  with  a  constant 
heart;"  and  he  declares  of  the  man  that  hath 
a  virtuous  wife,  "the  number  of  his  days  shall 
be  double — he  shall  fulfil  the  years  of  his  life 
in   peace."      Of    the   graceful   woman   he   says, 

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"If  tliere  be  kindness,  meekness  and  comfort 
in  her  tongue,  tlien  is  not  lier  husband  like 
other  men."  She  is  to  him  "a  pillar  of  rest," 
more  than  friend  and  companion,  above  even 
children  and  the  building  of  a  city,  and  like 
Wisdom  herself,  adorned  with  the  golden  orna- 
ment and  the  purple  lace,  she  shall  be  for  him 
a  robe  of  honor  and  a  crown  of  joy. 

King  Lemuel,  taught  by  his  mother,  had  a 
like  appreciation  of  the  blameless,  pure  and 
noble  woman,  and  he,  too,  after  the  manner  of 
the  Son  of  Sirach,  seems  to  have  had  before 
him,  rather  than  an  ideal,  a  personal  recollec- 
tion, when  he  says  of  such,  "The  heart  of  her 
husband  doth  safely  trust  in  her;  she  will  do 
him  good  and  not  evil  all  the  days  of  her 
life;  her  candle  goeth  not  out  by  night;  she 
reacheth  forth  her  hands  to  the  needy;  in  her 
tongue  is  the  law  of  kindness ;  she  looketh 
well  to  the  ways  of  her  household."  Unneces- 
sary is  it  to  add,  "Her  children  arise  up,  and 
call  her  blessed;  her  husband  also,  and  he 
praiseth   her." 

"  Sisters  part  from  sisters — brothers 
From  brothers — children  from  their  parents — but 
Such  woman  from  the  husband  of  her  choice, 
Never." 

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And  nowhere,  indeed,  does  woman  appear  to 
greater  advantage  than  in  the  home.  God  has 
His  sanctuaries  on  earth — places  consecrated 
for  His  worship  and  as  witnesses  to  His  glory ; 
but  there  is  no  spot  on  earth  more  holy  or 
more  to  be  reverenced  than  is  the  home  in 
which  love  and  duty,  sacrifice  and  religion, 
abide.  And  such  virtues  can  only  exist  where 
the  housewife  is  herself  true  at  heart  and 
gentle  in  mind  and  manner.  The  earliest 
refuge  of  man  was  lost  by  sin,  and  upon  him 
fell  labor  and  sorrow,  but  the  All-Merciful  left 
him  his  best  earthly  belonging  to  brighten 
the  dark,  sad  life.  Woman  is  never  nobler  or 
more  helpful  than  in  times  of  adversity;  and 
when  the  gates  of  Eden  were  closed  against 
her  and  her  loved  one,  she  took  heart  and 
gathered  up  the  strength  and  sweetness  of  her 
God-given  graces  and  made  in  the  desert  a 
new  home,  and  trained  even  the  weeds  and 
thistles  of  the  malediction  into  flowers  of 
beauty  and  delight.  Thus  she  created  and 
adorned  the  resting-place  for  the  weary  and  the 
heart-sore,  and  became  for  the  man  more  than 
ever  the  helpmeet  which  her  Lord  intended 
her  to  be.     Nor  is  there  in  this  world  anything 


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more  beautiful,  more  entrancing  and  uplifting, 
than  the  testimony  afforded  to  grace  and  virtue 
by  two  brave,  pure  hearts,  strong  in  each 
other's  love — though  possibly  poor  both  in 
friends  and  in  worldly  goods — struggling 
together  along  the  path  of  duty,  through  the 
day  of  gladness  and  through  the  night  of 
sorrow,  towards  that  grand  and  ultimate  goal 
of  all  life,  heaven  and  God. 

It  is  well  sometimes  to  think  of  woman  as,  for 
instance,  Dante  thought  of  his  divine  Beatrice, 
and  as  the  theologians,  poets  and  painters  of 
the  Church  have  thought  of  her  who  was  blessed 
above  all  daughters  of  earth,  the  Mother  of 
our  Lord.  The  world  has  never  had  a  sweeter 
conception  than  the  former,  or  a  purer  and 
lovelier  reality  than  the  latter.  In  Mary,  verily, 
have  been  set  forth  the  fullness  of  beauty  and 
the  sublimity  of  virtue  ;  she  was  pure,  hmnble- 
hearted,  trustful — the  perfect  maiden  and  the 
exalted  saint;  so  much  so  that  when  we  look 
at  her  as  a  Murillo  or  a  Raphael  looked  at  her, 
without  going  to  extremes  that  some,  swept 
by  the  forcefulness  of  the  ideal,  have  gone  to, 
we  realize  her  to  be  full  of  grace,  and  memories 
of  plaintive,   softest   music   once    heard   within 


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the   holy   walls   come  again   to  our  soul.     But 
the    Blessed     Virgin,    in   the   plenitude    of  her 
splendor,    enthroned    in    the     glory   which    an 
Angelico    imagined   was   worthy   of  her,    is  far 
beyond  the  good  women   of  whom  the  Son  of 
Sirach  and  King  Lemuel  wrote,  and  whom  we 
know    in    our    ever>^-day  life.     She    lives   in    a 
realm  that  few,  if  any,  can  approach,  possessing 
a  privilege  which  can  never  again  be  possessed 
by  woman ;  and  the  very  glory  of  her  character, 
while     it     encourages     and    strengthens     every 
woman  who  looks  steadily  upon  it,  is  so  rich,  so 
far  away,  so  hallowed,  that  every  woman  knows 
she   can    never   be   as  is    the    Handmaid  of  the 
Lord.     Therefore  we  come  down  to  lower  ideals, 
if  you  will,  and  think  of  woman,  not  in  extrava- 
gant and  extraordinary^  phases,  but  in  the  plainer 
and  more  practical  way  that  the  philosophers  I 
have  quoted  thought  of  her ;  for  both  you  and 
I  know  that  the  woman  and  the  wife  as    these 
writers   of    old   depicted  her   still   lives,  not  in 
rare  and    isolated  instances,    but   in  homes   and 
in    families    beyond    numbering.       None   of  us 
need  go  far   and  not   behold   such — even  more 
dear  and  beautiful  than  poetry'  or  aphorism  can 
make  her;  patient,  true,  pure,  loving — her  grace 


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above  gold.  And  an  example  of  such  I  shall 
show  you  before  I  have  done,  in  the  good  woman 
whose  memory  we  recall  to-day  in  solemn  servdce 
and  in  sincere  affection. 

What  her  life  was  is  known  to  all,  for  you 
saw  it  as  it  was  lived  through  the  many  years. 
Few,  indeed,  if  any,  are  there  present  who  did 
not  know  Harriet  Anne  Lucas — one  as  the 
loving  and  faithful  wife  ;  others  as  the  patient, 
sympathizing  and  affectionate  mother;  all  as 
the  friend  whose  heart  was  ever  open  to  the  cry 
of  the  helpless,  and  whose  hand  was  ever  ready 
to  give  proof  of  the  kindly  and  noble  instincts 
of  her  soul.  But  warm  as  this  appreciation 
may  be,  it  is  not  every  one  who  can  realize  the 
fullness  of  her  life  and  character.  The  depths 
of  our  nature,  whence  flow  the  springs  beside 
the  waters  of  which  grow  the  flowers  of  kindly 
deeds,  are  beyond  our  ordinary  vision ;  and  I 
confess  I  think  of  such  with  a  consciousness 
of  mystery  and  a  feeling  of  awe.  In  truth, 
such  a  study,  next  to  the  study  of  God  Himself, 
is  most  profound.  And  the  difficulty  of  it 
appears  greater  when  we  remember  the  isolation 
of  individuality.  L,ife  itself  is  mysterious  ;  but 
the  person  is  still  more  so.     Not  one  of  us  can 


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tell  to  another  all  that  lies  within  our  own 
heart  and  mind.  Perhaps  we  are  not  aware  of 
the  reality  ourselves.  But  what  we  are,  we 
may  judge  others  to  be — the  same  strange, 
complex  creatures,  doing  at  times  the  most 
solemn  and  the  most  beautiful  things,  and  at 
other  times  the  most  careless  and  frivolous 
things ;  having  great  hopes  and  small  hopes, 
curiously  mingled,  so  that  to-day  we  think  first, 
say,  of  Heaven,  and  to-morrow  of  some  trifle 
we  are  ashamed  to  own  up  to ;  full  of  ambitions, 
thoughts  that  lie  deep  and  silent  as  the  pools 
of  the  river,  and  thoughts  that  flit  as  the  sun- 
light runs  along  the  hillside ;  amiability  and 
obstinacy,  trust  and  doubt,  firmness  and  irresolu- 
tion, right  and  wrong,  tangled  together  in 
strangest  fashion ;  at  one  moment  lifted  up  to 
heights  of  purity,  holiness,  honor  and  love, 
till  angels'  joy  seems  ours,  and  at  the  next 
possessed  with  evil  so  hateful  that  we  dread 
lest  any  one  should  think  such  possible  for 
us — a  curious  medley,  I  repeat;  songs  and 
sorrows  side  by  side ;  virtues  and  vices  growing 
together  like  the  wheat  and  tares — such  is  the 
human  heart.  And  down  in  those  depths  is 
a   consciousness    of  the    loneliness ;    each   soul 


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for  the  most  part  living  by  itself;  unable  to 
tell  to  others  the  thoughts  that  are  too  deep 
for  words  or  tears ;  looking  upon  others 
without  power  to  make  itself  understood ; 
pride  battling  with  justice ;  and  under  all  this 
the  hope,  the  yearning,  longing  hope,  that  God 
will  have  pity  and  forgive,  and  save  His  child 
from  grief  and  woe.  Our  poor,  disturbed  indi- 
viduality, therefore,  is  not  wholly  bad,  nor 
is  it  wholly  good ;  and  the  outcome  corresponds 
thereto.  Man  may  have  gone  very  far  from 
original  righteousness,  but  he  has  not  reached 
total  depravity  ;  he  may  have  grown  better  and 
truer,  but  he  has  not  attained  to  the  purity  of 
God.  As  the  Divine  grace  affects  him,  so  does 
the  chaos  tend  to  order,  the  darkness  lightens; 
yet  so  long  as  he  is  in  this  world  in  his  life 
there  will  be  day  and  night — a  character 
exalted,  but  not  perfect.  Therefore,  when  we 
would  consider  a  given  person,  we  must  needs 
remember  these  evident  truths ;  and  when  we 
see  the  growth  of  a  useful  and  a  beautiful 
life,  we  must  know  that  in  the  individuality — 
which  we  may  not  look  into — righteousness  is 
overcoming  wrong,  virtue  is  freeing  itself  from 
the  cerements    and  bandages  of    evil,  strength 


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has  come  to  the  better  qualities,  and  God's 
grace  is  preparing  the  way  for  final  triumph. 
This  is  the  only  trustworthy  test :  he  who  does 
good,  and  loves  to  do  good,  is  good — that  is  to 
say,  of  course,  good,  not  absolutely,  but  compar- 
atively. And  when  through  a  long  life  you 
find  the  good  predominates,  the  love  holds 
firm,  the  kindliness,  honor,  integrity  and  unsel- 
fishness prevail,  you  may  be  satisfied  of  the 
strong  and  noble  character,  and  of  the  binding 
of  self  to  the  Divine  will. 

This  I  have  said  in  order  that  I  may  lead 
you  not  only  to  acknowledge  the  good  works 
which  Mrs.  Lucas  did,  but  also  to  appreciate 
and  sympathize  with  her  spirit  and  her  life. 
When  I  apply  to  her  the  words  of  my  text,  I 
desire  the  application  to  be  fully  understood, 
so  that  in  what  she  was,  as  well  as  in  what 
she  did,  you  may  recognize  that  her  grace  was 
above  gold.  She  had  her  ambitions  and  her 
visions — nor  would  she  have  been  real  had 
she  been  without  such  ;  but  none  can  say  that 
they  were  ambitions  or  visions  for  herself. 
Her  longings  and  her  hopes,  her  abundant 
labors  and  her  persistent  energy  were  indeed 
constitutional,    the     expression    of    her    really 


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remarkable    individuality,   but    they    were    put 
forth  for  the  sake  of  her  family  or  her  friends, 
for  the  good  of  the  afflicted  and  the   needy,  or 
for  the   glory  of  Almighty  God.     A  busy,  com- 
prehensive    iriind    was    hers,    running    out    in 
many    directions    and     concerning    itself    with 
many  enterprises.     She  was    never    idle :    truly 
was  it  in  work    that    she    found    her   joy,  and 
in  toil  her  rest.     A  daughter  of  a  mother  who 
had  no  ordinary  share  of  the  poetical    tempera- 
ment,  she  inherited  a  love   for  the  beautiful   in 
nature,   in  humanity,  in  art  and   in  books — the 
gift  of  response  to    the   rhythmic    Sowings  and 
the  soulful  voices  of  genius,   so  that   under  its 
influence  she  became  impassioned,   enthusiastic, 
excited.     Her  power  of   expression  was   consid- 
erable.    To  a  degree  far  from  common  she  had 
the    pen    of    a    ready    writer,     the     ability     to 
give  an  argument  or  a  description    clearly  and 
simply,  the  readiness   to  discern  truth,  and  the 
voice  and  manner  to  command  the  attention  of 
those    to  whom   she  spoke.     She    was    earnest 
and   sincere,  meaning   every  word   she    uttered, 
and  holding  fast    to  her  convictions.     Nor  was 
she  without  skill  in  management,  as  is  shown 
by  her  presence  on  the  boards  of  many  societies. 


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Other    graces,    too,    she   liad,   as   will  presently 
appear. 

One  of  the  objects  of  her  affectionate  solici- 
tude was  this  church  in  which  we  are  now 
gathered.  Truly  could  she  say,  "  Lord,  I  have 
loved  the  habitation  of  thy  house  ;  and  the 
place  where  thine  honor  dwelleth."  From  the 
day  when  the  foundations  were  laid  until  the 
hour  when  for  her  all  earthly  things  faded 
away,  her  interest  in  the  welfare  of  this 
sanctuary  never  flagged,  She  loved  the  very 
walls  thereof;  the  services  and  the  duties 
therein  wearied  her  no  more  than  shall  the 
services  and  the  duties  in  yonder  land  of  glory. 
"  Our  little  church  in  the  wilderness,"  she  used 
to  say  with  winsome  fondness  ;  and  then  she 
was  wont  to  add  in  slightly  graver  tone,  "We 
must  not  forget  our  little  church  in  the  wilder- 
ness." It  was  very  dear  to  her,  and  none  the 
less  dear  will  it  be  to  you  who  love  her.  I  do 
not  know  whether  she  ever  read  Wordsworth's 
Ecclesiastical  Sonnets,  or  Isaac  Williams's 
Cathedral  Poems,  but  the  spirit  which  touched 
those  singers  touched  her  also.  Born  and  bred  a 
daughter  of  the  Church,  she  appreciated  the  life 
of  the  Church — that  gentle  life  which  befits  the 


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Bride  of  the  Beautiful  Clirist,  but  wliich,  like 
the  sweet  grace  of  the  wild  flowers  or  the  tender 
loveliness  of  the  hidden  soul,  is  too  often  over- 
looked, not  only  by  the  world,  but  also  by  many 
who  have  eyes  to  see  and  ears  to  hear.  That 
life,  divine  and  pure,  brought  to  her  benediction 
and  peace,  breathing  into  her  soul  a  holy  calm, 
and  speaking  to  her  of  that  rest  into  which, 
by  the  goodness  of  God,  she  has  now  entered. 
The  Church,  to  such  as  comes  the  inspiration 
which  came  to  a  St.  John  and  a  St.  Augustine, 
is  personified  and  transfigured — a  beautiful 
mother,  robed  in  spotless  purity ;  a  second  Eve 
given  to  the  second  Adam ;  with  a  voice  of 
wondrous  sweetness,  and  eyes  that  tell  of  heart- 
depths  where  love  abides,  and  hands  that  fall 
beseechingly  on  the  shoulders  of  the  erring 
and  soothe  gently  the  humble  and  the  trustful. 
To  her  come  Christ's  little  ones.  His  dear 
children,  and  she  loves  them  because  they  are 
His;  and  as  they  behold  not  only  her  clothing 
of  wrought  gold,  but  also  her  heavenly  graces, 
they  win  an  attachment,  a  loyalty  which  time 
cannot  weaken  and  which  death  cannot  destroy. 
She  is  from  above,  the  Witness  of  God  in  this 
darksome  world,  and  she  tells  us — sweet  Mother 


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as  she  is — now  of  duty,  and  now  of  the  time 
when  her  Lord  shall  wipe  away  the  tears  from 
off  all  faces.  Such  a  conception  can  never  be 
theirs  whose  Christianity  is  bound  up  in  a  sect 
and  whose  theology  is  that  of  a  denomination. 
And  because  our  beloved  friend  had  something 
of  this  ideal,  she  struggled  against  the  narrow- 
ness and  bigotry  which  surge  around  us.  She 
was  a  Churchwoman  from  beginning  to  end — 
catholic;  and  her  religion,  because  catholic, 
was  therefore  historical,  and  because  historical, 
therefore  scriptural.  So  she  loved,  as  one  of 
her  sensibilities  naturally  would  love,  the 
performance  of  Divine  service  and  the  adminis- 
tration of  rites  and  sacraments  with  those 
ceremonies,  many  of  which  are  of  primitive 
origin,  all  of  which  have  been  consecrated  by 
time,  and  in  which  not  a  few  of  earth's  choicest 
spirits  have  found  a  happy  expression  for  their 
devotion.  So  she  loved,  too,  as  one  of  her 
sensibilities  naturally  would  love,  to  hear  of 
the  story,  the  constitution  and  the  doctrine 
of  that  Divine  society  which  has  come  down 
through  the  ages  and  in  which  dwells  the 
Spirit  of  the  living  God.  Thus  she  learned 
the    truth    of    sacraments    and    the    worth    of 


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unity — of  unity,  not  simply  with  Christians 
in  the  present  day,  but  through  the  centuries 
with  the  Church  of  Apostolic  days,  and  beyond 
the  centuries  with  the  Church  which  is  in 
heaven.  And  thus  it  came  to  pass  that  her 
heart  clung  to  this  House  of  God,  and  for 
nothing  did  she  wish  and  work  more  than 
that  the  people  of  Gibbsboro'  should  be  gathered 
into  the  fold  and  be  taught  the  ways  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ.  "Sanctified  in  the 
wilderness,"  as  her  words  used  to  run;  the 
wilderness  which  she  helped  to  make  rejoice 
and  blossom  as  the  rose,  and  never  so  much 
as  when  she  wrought  for  the  lifting  up  of 
these  walls  and  the  setting  of  the  Cross  upon 
a  building  that  should  be  God's  own  Zion — 
the  gates  of  which  He  should  love  more  than 
all  the  dwellings  of  Jacob.  Time  passes  away ; 
the  Cross  remains,  and  in  the  coming  years 
when  we  are  all  gone — 

"the  Sun  with  his  first  smile 
Shall  greet  that  symbol  crowning  the  low  Pile  : 
And  the  fresh  air  of  incense-breathing  morn 
Shall  wooingly  embrace  it ;  and  green  moss 
Creep  round  its  arms  through  centuries  unborn." 

A  woman  thus  devoted  to  the  Church  could 
not  but  give  herself  also  to  works  which  tended 


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to  the  bettering  of  others.  I  cannot  tell  of  all 
her  benevolent  efforts.  She  gave  freely  of  her 
time  and  means,  and  when  her  sympathies  were 
aroused — which  commonly  happened — she  was 
as  generous  of  the  latter  as  of  the  former.  Never 
turned  she  her  face  away  from  any  poor  man. 
She  was  active  in  the  Newsboys'  Home,  in  the 
Italian  Mission,  in  the  House  of  Rest  for  the 
Aged,  in  the  Chinese  pagans  of  Philadelphia, 
and  in  Indian  Missions.  Her  public  spirit 
was  shown  in  the  interest  she  gave  to  the  Silk 
Culture  Association,  and  in  the  labor  she  did 
for  the  Exposition  in  Chicago.  In  fact,  it  is 
not  unlikely  that  the  unceasing  toil  and  the 
consuming  devotion  she  bestowed  upon  this 
last-named  enterprise  shortened  her  days.  She 
organized  and  guided  the  part  which  the  women 
of  Pennsylvania  purposed  taking  in  that  work ; 
and  she  laid  down  the  management  and  ceased 
to  dictate  letters  to  her  secretaries,  not  till  the 
hand  of  death  was  upon  her.  Gold  is  good, 
but  the  grace,  the  self-sacrifice  and  work  of  a 
wise  and  good  woman  is  above  gold.  Verily, 
when  the  Master  rang  the  bell  for  His  hand- 
maid, around  her  lay  the  work.  Long  as 
was  her  sickness,  and  weak  as  her  body  became, 


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her  energy  and  devotion  kept  lier  at  the  ap- 
pointed task ;  and  when  she  went  to  Him  who 
had  called  her,  she  went  wearied  and  worn,  labor- 
stained,  ready,  indeed,  to  fall  asleep. 

There  was  another  love,  too,  she  had,  which 
was  to  her  very  sacred.  Why  she  loved  England 
I  need  not  say ;  but  with  an  ardency  born  of  true 
affection  she  delighted  in  reminiscences  of  travel 
in  that  country — the  dales  of  Derbyshire,  the 
fields  of  Kenilworth  and  Stratford,  the  busy 
streets  of  London.  And  because  she  loved  the 
quiet,  shady  lane,  the  meadow  where  purls  the 
brook  under  the  willows,  the  village  church, 
whose  spire  points  ever  heavenward,  and  whose 
bells  send  their  sweet  melody  far  across  the 
country-side;  the  manor-houses,  the  inns,  the 
cottages — homes  of  a  nation's  life ;  and  because 
she  loved  the  story  of  that  life — its  romance,  its 
grandeur,  its  struggles,  its  victories — because  of 
all  this,  and  much  more,  she  cared  for  the  work 
done  in  this  country  to  help  and  relieve  distressed 
wanderers  from  over  the  sea.  With  Societies 
having  such  for  their  purpose,  she  was  in 
heartiest  sympathy.  She  sometimes  went  to 
their  festive  gatherings,  listened  with  interest  to 
the  speeches  made  on   such  occasions,  and  not 


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iinfrequently  herself  uttered  words  which,  because 
they  were  fervid  and  helpful,  always  were 
received  with  attention  and  drew  forth  applause. 
But  much  as  she  may  have  cherished  the 
memories  of  England,  it  may  be  doubted  if  a  spot 
on  earth  was  more  dear  to  her  than  this  village  of 
Gibbsboro'.  Its  associations  were  most  precious 
to  her  of  all  the  associations  of  life.  Here  she 
lived,  as  she  told  me  again  and  again,  her  hap- 
piest years  and  cultivated  her  choicest  friend- 
ships. This  was  home  as  no  other  place  ever 
really  became;  and  as  nowhere  else,  here  she 
found  health  and  rest.  She  did  much  towards 
reducing  the  dreary  wild  this  place  was  when 
first  she  saw  it  to  its  present  finish  and  beauty. 
In  her  husband's  plans,  whereby  ultimately  art 
triumphed  over  nature,  she  took  the  profoundest 
interest,  and  where  perseverance  and  labor  made 
a  garden,  love  and  fidelity  changed  it  into  a 
paradise.  She  was  the  good  housewife,  and 
within  the  old  home  yonder  were  husband  and 
children,  affectionate  and  loyal,  great-hearted  as 
herself,  and  friends  rejoiced  in  the  hospitality 
there  given,  and  innocent  merriment  prevailed, 
and  never  went  away  man  or  woman  thence  a 
stranger,  or  with  feelings  other  than  of  respect 


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for  the  lady  whose  grace   of  disposition   mani- 
fested itself  in  generous  deeds.     I  do  not  wish 
to  imply  that  her  life  was  without  its  difficulties 
— every    life     has    such.     She    had    the    same 
complex  nature  which  we  all  have,  and  her  will 
and   her   prejudices   were    strong — as   from   her 
forceful  character  they  could  not  be  otherwise; 
but  she  met  her  difficulties  heroically,  and  she 
proved  herself  worthy  of  being  reckoned  among 
the  wise  and  good  women  whose  grace  is  above 
gold.     Nor  would  I   lead   you  to  suppose  that 
gifted  though  she  was  with  impulsiveness  and 
imagination,  she  was  to  any  appreciable  degree 
either   contemplative  or   sentimental.     She  was 
too  active,  too  practical,  too  restless,  and  found 
her  days  too  full,  to  indulge  in  visions,  sweet 
though  they  may  be.     But  so  quick  were  her 
perceptions,  so  lively  her  sense  of  the  beautiful 
and   so    exact   her   appreciation  of  nature,   that 
she  caught  instantly  the  thought  and  the  charm, 
say,    of    a    poem,   a    painting   or    a    landscape. 
Hence  she  understood  and  loved,   strongly  and 
really,  the  picturesque  surroundings  of  her  home, 
How   she    delighted    in    the   eventide    to   look 
upon  the  serene  and  shimmering  waters  of  the 
lake,  and  to  watch  the  bending  lily-leaves,  and 


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the  splash  of  the  wavelets,  and  the  woods 
beyond,  rich  in  their  summer  splendor  or  their 
autumnal  red  and  gold,  and  the  clouds  tinged 
with  sun-glory  resting  in  the  blue  and  silent 
sky !  She  loved  it  all — the  green  lawn  and  the 
spreading  elm.  The  depth  and  fulness  of 
her  love  were  shown  in  the  last  words  she 
spoke    in    this    world— "  Take    me    to    Gibbs- 

boro.' " 

It  was   a  simple   utterance,  but   one   full    of 
meaning.     The     river     of     memories     rushing 
swiftly  along,  then  overflowed  its  banks.     "Take 
me  to   Gibbsboro'"— to  the   old   home,   to   the 
lakeside,    to  the   birds   and   trees,    to   the   little 
church    in     the     wilderness,     to     the     friends 
of    bygone     days,    to     the      childhood    of    the 
children,    to    the    years    of   love,    to    the    rest 
and  quiet !     She  could  not  tell  all  she  meant,  but 
it    is     plain     enough — the    breaking    forth     of 
unutterable  affection,  the  longing  to  hold  back 
for  one   dear  moment   the   darkening  of  time's 
twilight,  the  flood  of  sympathy,  love  and  anxiety 
for  husband,  sons  and  daughters,  the  cry  of  the 
turning  tide  and  the  drooping  wind.     But  God 
had    for    her    better    things    than    even    these 
precious  things  of  earth.     The  ebb  of  life  went 


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on.     Loved  ones  wept.     The  angels  came — and 
they  carried  her  away. 

As  I  utter  these  words  I  think  of  the  hold 
which  the  truth  of  immortality  had  upon  her,  as 
it  must  needs  have  upon  all  who  consider  life 
and  its  future.  No  sermons  affected  her  more 
than  did  such  as  set  forth  the  hope  of  glory,  and 
told  of  the  good  things  which  God  hath  prepared 
for  them  that  love  Him.  For  her  there  was  a 
blessed  home,  a  sweet  country,  a  heavenly 
Jerusalem,  such  as  this  world  had  never  known 
and  so  long  as  time  endures  can  never  know. 
The  grave  is  not  the  end ;  beyond  its  gloom  lies 
the  endless  light — the  joy  and  the  rest  which 
they  have  who  behold  the  sea  and  the  river,  clear 
as  crystal,  shaded  by  rare  and  wondrous  trees  and 
bordered  by  the  sweet  and  pleasant  flowers  and 
the  streets  of  pure  gold.  In  that  dear  land,  the 
glory  of  which  the  richest  imagination  can  only 
faintly  suggest,  the  blessed  inhabitants  thereof, 
untouched  by  sorrow  or  sin,  shall  enjoy  precious 
intercourse  one  with  another,  and  above  all  else 
shall  see  the  King  in  His  beauty.  This  is  the 
joy  of  heaven — to  see  God.  All  else  is  as 
nothing  compared  with  Him.  No  more  seeing 
through  a  glass  darkly ;    but  face  to  face.     With 


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this  assurance  we  know  that  it  is  not  death 
which  comes  to  the  Christian  in  the  moment 
when  the  eyes  behold  no  more  the  things  of 
earth ;  it  is  an  apotheosis — a  transformation  of 
the  humanity  of  the  lower  life  into  the  vigor 
and  splendor  of  the  heavenly — a  breaking  of 
clouds,  of  clay,  of  bounds,  and  the  rush  of  the 
soul,  mightier  than  though  lifted  by  eagle's 
wings,  to  freedom,  light,  saintship,  gladness,  and 
the  presence  of  the  Infinite  and  Eternal.  And 
they  sing  sweet  songs  in  yonder  kingdom  which 
make  amends  for  all  the  tears  of  this  world — 
songs  like  the  sound  of  many  waters,  full  and 
limitless  and  free ;  and  the  ebb  and  the  night 
never  come,  but  the  flow  and  the  day  continue 
ever,  bringing  joys  and  creating  pleasures,  the 
very  thought  of  which  might  well  make  us  wish 
that  we  too  were  there.  This  hope  which  had 
been  our  departed  one's  gladness  for  many  a  long 
year,  which  stirred  her  heart  to  its  deepest 
depths,  is  now  for  her  a  reality.  The  angels 
came — and  they  carried  her  away. 

Good  reason  is  there  for  having  this  service  on 
this  day.  The  festival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist 
has  been  obser\'ed  ever  in  this  parish  ;  and  on 
this   day,    for  years  past,  Mrs.    Lucas    loved    to 


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gather  her  friends  around  her.     And  good  reason, 
too,  is  there  that  I  should  have  sought  thus  to  set 
before  you  both  the  work  and  the  character  of 
this  beloved  and  favored  woman.     Her  example 
is   worthy   of   emulation,  her  memory  of  most 
loving   care.     If  I   have   spoken   more  fully  of 
ideals,  say,  of  womanhood  and  of  the  Church,  it 
is   partly   because   she   delighted   in   such,    and 
partly   because   without   doing   so    I    could  not 
fairly  suggest,  much  less  display,  her  life.     I  do 
not  suppose  even  now  that  I  have  said  all  that 
ought  to  be  said.     You  will,  however,  bear  me 
witness   that  I    have   nowhere   exaggerated  her 
great     gifts    or    her     remarkable    virtues,    and 
nowhere  have  I  given  praise  that  you  know  full 
well  she  did  not  deserve.     The  world  is  poorer 
for  her  loss.     They  who  mourn  her  as  a  wife  or 
as  a  mother  will  indeed  find  that  her  place  can 
never    be    filled,    but    they   will    also    discover 
comfort   in   the   recollection   of  her   useful  life. 
They  will  remember  instances  of  her  kindliness 
of  spirit,  of  her  generosity  of  love,  of  her  gentle 
and  wise  counsel,  which  others  know  nothing  of. 
They   will   recall,    as    time   goes    on,    traits    of 
disposition    and   deeds   of    sweetness    that   will 
endear  to  them  still  more  her  memory.     They 


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will  think  of  her  more  tenderly,  more  deeply, 
more  fondly,  in  the  coming  years,  when  the  flow 
of  grief  has  been  stayed  and  the  bitterness  of 
bereavement  has  passed  away.  She  will  be  to 
her  children  a  restraining  influence:  they  will 
remember  her,  and  will  stay  ere  they  speak  the 
word  or  do  the  deed  that  would  bring  dishonor 
to  her  name ;  they  will  remember  her,  and  seek 
to  prove  themselves  worthy  of  such  a  mother. 
And  to  her  children's  children  she  will  become 
an  ideal,  a  vision  of  glor}^,  an  illustration  of 
many  virtues — sacred,  picturesque,  inspiring, 
helpful.  A  wise  and  good  woman,  her  grace 
was  above  gold. 

The  eventide  comes  on  and  the  shadows 
lengthen  fast.  Now,  as  we  sing  our  hymn, 
mellow  and  tender  thoughts  enter  our  soul — 
subdued,  unutterable,  full  of  saddest,  sweetest 
melancholy.  Soon  shall  the  long  summer  day 
be  ended,  and  in  the  sky  shall  appear  the 
silent  stars.  In  the  night  that  draweth  nigh, 
peace  shall  fall  upon  the  weary  children  of 
earth  ;  but  to-morrow  comes  God's  day — promise 
of  the  rest  that  remaineth.  Therefore  Hope, 
like  a  kind,  good  angel,  tarries  with  us — and 
to  these   dear    friends,    who    in    the    gathering 


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twilight  have  lost  sight  of  her  whom  they 
love,  Hope  whispers  comforting  assurances: 
the  souls  of  the  righteous  are  in  the  hand  of 
God;  they  are  in  peace;  the  care  of  them  is 
with  the  Most  High ;  "therefore  shall  they 
receive  a  glorious  kingdom,  and  a  beautiful 
crown  from  the  Lord's  hand :  for,  with  His 
right  hand  shall  He  cover  them,  and  with  His 
arm  shall  He  protect  them."  In  that  blessed 
country  where  she  is  gone — where  night  never 
comes,  and  where  the  wind  breathes  against 
the  angels'  robes — she  shall  be  led  on  from 
glory  to  glory,  until,  in  the  Resurrection,  God 
shall  give  her  back  again  to  her  own, 
resplendent  in  the  everlasting  beauty,  and 
happy  in  the  everlasting  life. 

God,  of  His  infinite  mercy,  grant  to  us,  dear 
brethren,  that  in  the  day  when  men  shall  lay 
us  with  our  feet  towards  the  dawn,  and  the 
surpliced  priest  commits  our  body  to  the 
keeping  of  the  earth,  we  may  enter  into  the 
rest  which  we  believe  to  be  the  heritage  of 
this  good  woman — beside  whose  grave,  with 
reverence  and  affection,  as  the  flowers  of 
remembrance  drop  from  my  hand,  I  say,  "Her 
grace  was  above  gold." 


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PRESS  OF 

TIMES  PRINTING   HOUSB 

PHILADELPHIA 


Addenda. 

The  following  was  received  too  late  to  be 
printed  in  this  volume : 

Transcript  of  the  Minutes,  as  recorded  at  the 
Memorial  Service,  held  at  the  Assembly  Room, 
Woman's    Building,    Chicago,    August  2,    1893. 

Mary  E.  McCandless,  of  Pennsylvania,  sub- 
mitted the  following  Memorial  Resolutions  for 
record : 

"But  three  days  after  the  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Lady  Managers,  May  5th,  last,  Harriet  Anne 
Lucas  surrendered  her  soul  to  God.  High  and 
low,  rich  and  poor,  were  alike  to  her.  Mourned 
as  she  is  by  the  community  in  which  she  lived, 
their  grief  is  but  a  faint  echo  of  the  sorrow  that 
crushes  her  household. 

"A  devoted  wife,  a  loving  mother,  a  true 
friend,  she  endeared  herself  to  the  Board  of 
Lady  Managers  by  her  personal  magnetism,  her 
uniform   gentleness,    pleasing   suavity,   kindness 


of  heart  and  charming  courtesy.  Especially  was 
she  beloved  by  the  Auxiliary  Committees  of 
Pennsylvania,  who  felt  that  the  Chairman  ot 
the  Committee  of  Woman's  Work  was  a  true 
woman,  who  was  just  to  all  and  considered 
the  interest  of  the  entire  State,  and  was  in 
thorough  harmony  with  the  most  remote 
committee. 

"The  Pennsylvania  Exhibit  of  Woman's 
Work  is  her  best  monument,  and  each  new 
panegyric  uttered  in  its  praise  is  another  line 
added  to  her  epitaph.  To  her  colleagues,  who 
relied  on  her  sound  judgment  and  advice,  her 
loss  is  irreparable.  If  the  blessings  of  her 
friends  and  neighbors  were  flowers  her  grave 
would  be  in  perpetual  bloom." 


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